Gw mau tau 1980-an dari Academy Award untuk Desain Produksi Terbaik

1980 Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens - Tess John W. Corso, John M. Dwyer - Coal Miner's Daughter

Stuart Craig, Robert Cartwright, Hugh Scaife - The Elephant Man

Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins, Michael D. Ford - The Empire Strikes Back

Yoshiro Muraki - Kagemusha (影武者)

1981 Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Michael D. Ford (SD) - Raiders of the Lost Ark Assheton Gorton, Ann Mollo - The French Lieutenant's Woman

Tambi Larsen, James L. Berkey - Heaven's Gate

John Graysmark, Patrizia von Brandenstein, Tony Reading, George DeTitta Sr., George DeTitta Jr., Peter Howitt - Ragtime

Richard Sylbert, Michael Seirton - Reds

1982 Stuart Craig, Robert W. Laing; Michael Seirton (SD) - Gandhi Dale Hennesy (posthumous nomination), Marvin March - Annie

Lawrence G. Paull, David L. Snyder, Linda DeScenna - Blade Runner

Franco Zeffirelli, Gianni Quaranta - La traviata

Rodger Maus, Tim Hutchinson, William Craig Smith, Harry Cordwell - Victor/Victoria

1983 Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim - Fanny & Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James L. Schoppe, Michael D. Ford - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter R. Romero, Jim Poynter, George R. Nelson - The Right Stuff

Polly Platt, Harold Michelson, Tom Pedigo, Anthony Mondell - Terms of Endearment

Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins, Tessa Davies - Yentl

1984 Patrizia von Brandenstein; Karel Cerný (SD) - Amadeus Richard Sylbert, George Gaines - The Cotton Club

Mel Bourne, Angelo P. Graham, Bruce Weintraub - The Natural

John Box, Hugh Scaife - A Passage to India

Albert Brenner, Rick Simpson - 2010

1985 Stephen Grimes; Josie Macavin (SD) - Out of Africa Norman Garwood, Maggie Gray - Brazil

J. Michael Riva, Bo Welch, Linda DeScenna - The Color Purple

Yoshiro Muraki, Shinobu Muraki - Ran (乱)

Stan Jolley, John H. Anderson - Witness

1986 Gianni Quaranta, Brian Ackland-Snow; Brian Savegar, Elio Altamura (SD) - A Room with a View Peter Lamont, Crispian Sallis - Aliens

Boris Leven (posthumous nomination), Karen O'Hara - The Color of Money

Stuart Wurtzel, Carol Joffe - Hannah and Her Sisters

Stuart Craig, Jack Stephens - The Mission

1987 Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Bruno Cesari, Osvaldo Desideri (SD) - The Last Emperor Norman Reynolds, Harry Cordwell - Empire of the Sun

Anthony Pratt, Joanne Woollard - Hope and Glory

Santo Loquasto, Carol Joffe, Leslie Bloom, George DeTitta Jr. - Radio Days

Patrizia von Brandenstein, William A. Elliott, Hal Gausman - The Untouchables

1988 Stuart Craig; Gerard James (SD) - Dangerous Liaisons Albert Brenner, Garrett Lewis - Beaches

Ida Random, Linda DeScenna - Rain Man

Dean Tavoularis, Armin Ganz - Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Elliot Scott, Peter Howitt - Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1989 Anton Furst; Peter Young (SD) - Batman Leslie Dilley, Anne Kuljian - The Abyss

Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Bruno Rubeo, Crispian Sallis - Driving Miss Daisy

Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis - Glory