# AACTA Award for Best Production Design

The AACTA Award for Best Production Design is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television." The award is handed out at the annual AACTA Awards, which rewards achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films. From 1976 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards). When the AFI launched the academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Production Design.
Best Production Design was first presented as Best Art Direction in 1977. The name changed to its current one in 1983. The award is presented to the production designer of a film that is Australian-made, or with a significant amount of Australian content.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years listed correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the same year. The films and production designers in bold and in yellow background have won are the winners. Those that are neither highlighted nor in bold are the nominees. When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning film first and then the other nominees.
| Year | Film | Production designer(s) |
| AFI Awards |||
| 1977 | The Picture Show Man | David Copping |
| 1977 | Break of Day | Wendy Dickson |
| 1977 | Oz | Robbie Perkins |
| 1977 | Storm Boy | David Copping |
| 1978 | Newsfront | Lissa Coote |
| 1978 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Wendy Dickson |
| 1978 | The Getting of Wisdom | John Stoddart, Richard D. Kent |
| 1978 | The Mango Tree | Leslie Binns |
| 1979 | My Brilliant Career | Luciana Arrighi |
| 1979 | The Last Of The Knucklemen | Leslie Binns |
| 1979 | Mad Max | Jon Dowding |
| 1979 | Money Movers | David Copping |
| 1980s |||
| 1980 | Breaker Morant | David Copping |
| 1980 | The Chain Reaction | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| 1980 | Harlequin | Bernard Hides |
| 1980 | Stir | Lee Whitmore |
| 1981 | Gallipoli | Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
| 1981 | Fatty Finn | Lissa Coote |
| 1981 | Grendel Grendel Grendel | Alex Stitt |
| 1981 | The Survivor | Bernard Hides |
| 1981 | Winter of Our Dreams | Lee Whitmore |
| 1982 | Mad Max 2 | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| 1982 | The Return of Captain Invincible | David Copping |
| 1982 | Squizzy Taylor | Logan Brewer |
| 1982 | Starstruck | Brian Thomson |
| 1983 | Careful, He Might Hear You | John Stoddart |
| 1983 | Undercover | Herbert Pinter |
| 1983 | The Wild Duck | Darrell Lass |
| 1983 | The Year of Living Dangerously | Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
| 1984 | Strikebound | Tracy Watt, Harry Zettel, MacGregor Knox |
| 1984 | Razorback | Bryce Walmsley |
| 1984 | Silver City | Igor Nay |
| 1984 | Street Hero | Brian Thomson |
| 1985 | Rebel | Brian Thomson |
| 1985 | Bliss | Owen Paterson, Wendy Dickson |
| 1985 | The Coca-Cola Kid | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| 1985 | Frog Dreaming | Jon Dowding |
| 1986 | Playing Beatie Bow | George Liddle |
| 1986 | Dead End Drive-In | Lawrence Eastwood |
| 1986 | For Love Alone | John Stoddart |
| 1986 | The Right-Hand Man | Neil Angwin |
| 1987 | Ground Zero | Brian Thomson |
| 1987 | Bullseye | George Liddle |
| 1987 | The Place at the Coast | Owen Paterson |
| 1987 | To Market To Market | Virginia Rouse |
| 1988 | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Sally Campbell |
| 1988 | Dangerous Game | Igor Nay |
| 1988 | Incident at Raven's Gate | Judith Russell |
| 1988 | Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds | Sean Callinan |
| 1989 | Ghosts… of the Civil Dead | Chris Kennedy |
| 1989 | Dead Calm | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| 1989 | Georgia | Jon Dowding |
| 1989 | Island | Neil Angwin |
| 1990s |||
| 1990 | Flirting | Roger Ford |
| 1990 | The Big Steal | Paddy Reardon |
| 1990 | Blood Oath | Bernard Hides |
| 1990 | Weekend with Kate | Lawrence Eastwood |
| 1991 | Spotswood | Chris Kennedy |
| 1991 | Aya | Jennie Tate |
| 1991 | Deadly | Peta Lawson |
| 1991 | Isabelle Eberhardt | Bryce Perrin, Geoffroy Larcher |
| 1992 | Strictly Ballroom | Catherine Martin |
| 1992 | The Last Days of Chez Nous | Janet Patterson |
| 1992 | Love in Limbo | David McKay |
| 1992 | Romper Stomper | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 1993 | The Piano | Andrew McAlpine |
| 1993 | Broken Highway | Lesley Crawford |
| 1993 | Resistance | MacGregor Knox |
| 1993 | Say a Little Prayer | Chris Kennedy |
| 1994 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Owen Paterson |
| 1994 | Gino | Chris Kennedy |
| 1994 | Muriel's Wedding | Paddy Reardon |
| 1994 | Traps | Michael Philips |
| 1995 | Metal Skin | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 1995 | All Men Are Liars | Murray Pope |
| 1995 | Mushrooms | George Liddle |
| 1995 | That Eye, the Sky | Chris Kennedy |
| 1996 | Children of the Revolution | Roger Ford |
| 1996 | Love Serenade | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 1996 | Shine | Vicki Niehus |
| 1996 | To Have & to Hold | Chris Kennedy |
| 1997 | The Well | Michael Philips |
| 1997 | Doing Time for Patsy Cline | Roger Ford |
| 1997 | Idiot Box | Kerith Holmes |
| 1997 | Thank God He Met Lizzie | Clarissa Patterson |
| 1998 | Oscar and Lucinda | Luciana Arrighi |
| 1998 | Dead Letter Office | Chris Kennedy |
| 1998 | The Interview | Richard Bell |
| 1998 | Radiance | Sarah Stollman |
| 1999 | Passion | Murray Picknett |
| 1999 | In a Savage Land | Nicholas McCallum |
| 1999 | Praise | Michael Philips |
| 1999 | Siam Sunset | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2000s |||
| 2000 | Bootmen | Murray Picknett |
| 2000 | Better Than Sex | Tara Kamath |
| 2000 | Chopper | Paddy Reardon |
| 2000 | Looking for Alibrandi | Stephen Curtis |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Catherine Martin |
| 2001 | The Bank | Luigi Pittorino |
| 2001 | Lantana | Kim Buddee |
| 2001 | La Spagnola | Dee Molineaux |
| 2002 | Dirty Deeds | Chris Kennedy |
| 2002 | Garage Days | Michael Philips |
| 2002 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | Roger Ford |
| 2002 | Swimming Upstream | Roger Ford |
| 2003 | Ned Kelly | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2003 | Gettin' Square | Nicholas McCallum |
| 2003 | Japanese Story | Paddy Reardon |
| 2003 | The Night We Called It a Day | Michael Philips |
| 2004 | Somersault | Melinda Doring |
| 2004 | Love's Brother | Paul Heath |
| 2004 | One Perfect Day | MacGregor Knox, Patrick Bennet, Joseph Keily |
| 2004 | Tom White | Dan Potra |
| 2005 | The Proposition | Chris Kennedy |
| 2005 | Little Fish | Luigi Pittorino |
| 2005 | Look Both Ways | Rita Zanchetta |
| 2005 | Three Dollars | Luigi Pittorino |
| 2006 | Macbeth | David McKay |
| 2006 | Candy | Robert Cousins |
| 2006 | Suburban Mayhem | Nell Hanson |
| 2006 | Ten Canoes | Beverley Freeman |
| 2007 | The Home Song Stories | Melinda Doring |
| 2007 | Clubland | Nell Hanson |
| 2007 | Noise | Paddy Reardon |
| 2007 | Romulus, My Father | Robert Cousins |
| 2008 | Death Defying Acts | Gemma Jackson |
| 2008 | The Children of Huang Shi | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2008 | The Tender Hook | Pete Baxter |
| 2008 | Unfinished Sky | Laurie Faen |
| 2009 | Australia | Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
| 2009 | Balibo | Robert Cousins |
| 2009 | Mao's Last Dancer | Herbert Pinter |
| 2009 | Mary and Max | Adam Elliot |
| 2010s |||
| 2010 | Bright Star | Janet Patterson |
| 2010 | Animal Kingdom | Josephine Ford |
| 2010 | Beneath Hill 60 | Clayton Jauncey |
| 2010 | Tomorrow, When the War Began | Robert Webb, Michelle McGahey, Damien Drew, Beverley Dunn |
| AACTA Awards |||
| 2011 (1st) | The Eye of the Storm | Melinda Doring |
| 2011 (1st) | The Hunter | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2011 (1st) | Red Dog | Ian Gracie |
| 2011 (1st) | Sleeping Beauty | Annie Beauchamp |
| 2012 (2nd) | The Sapphires | Melinda Doring |
| 2012 (2nd) | Burning Man | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2012 (2nd) | Killer Elite | Michelle McGahey |
| 2012 (2nd) | Lore | Silke Fischer |
| 2013 (3rd) | The Great Gatsby | Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
| 2013 (3rd) | Adoration | Annie Beauchamp |
| 2013 (3rd) | Goddess | Annie Beauchamp |
| 2013 (3rd) | The Rocket | Pete Baxter |
| 2014 (4th) | Predestination | Matthew Putland |
| 2014 (4th) | The Babadook | Alex Holmes |
| 2014 (4th) | The Rover | Josephine Ford |
| 2014 (4th) | The Water Diviner | Chris Kennedy |
| 2015 (5th) | Mad Max: Fury Road | Colin Gibson |
| 2015 (5th) | Cut Snake | Josephine Ford |
| 2015 (5th) | The Dressmaker | Roger Ford |
| 2015 (5th) | Partisan | Steven Jones-Evans, Sarah Cyngler |
| 2016 (6th) | Hacksaw Ridge | Barry Robison |
| 2016 (6th) | The Daughter | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2016 (6th) | Girl Asleep | Jonathon Oxlade |
| 2016 (6th) | Goldstone | Matt Putland |
| 2017 (7th) | Lion | Chris Kennedy |
| 2017 (7th) | Berlin Syndrome | Melinda Doring |
| 2017 (7th) | The Death and Life of Otto Bloom | Ben Morieson |
| 2017 (7th) | Jasper Jones | Herbert Pinter |
| 2018 (8th) | Peter Rabbit | Roger Ford, Lisa Thompson |
| 2018 (8th) | Cargo | Jo Ford |
| 2018 (8th) | Upgrade | Felicity Abbott, Katie Sharrock |
| 2018 (8th) | Winchester | Vanessa Cerne, Matthew Putland |
| 2019 (9th) | The King | Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton |
| 2019 (9th) | Hotel Mumbai | Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2019 (9th) | Judy and Punch | Jo Ford |
| 2019 (9th) | The Nightingale | Alex Holmes |
| 2020s |||
| 2020 (10th) | True History of the Kelly Gang | Karen Murphy, Rebecca Cohen |
| 2020 (10th) | Babyteeth | Sherree Philips |
| 2020 (10th) | I Am Woman | Michael Turner, Richie Dehne |
| 2020 (10th) | The Invisible Man | Alex Holmes, Katie Sharrock |
| 2020 (10th) | Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | Robert Perkins |
| 2021 (11th) | Mortal Kombat | Naaman Marshall |
| 2021 (11th) | 2067 | Jacinta Leong |
| 2021 (11th) | Nitram | Alice Babidge |
| 2021 (11th) | Penguin Bloom | Annie Beauchamp |
| 2021 (11th) | Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Roger Ford |