1980s
- 1980: Seiichiro Momosawa – The Shadow Warrior (Kagemusha)
- Albert Wolsky – All That Jazz
- Frantz Salieri – Don Giovanni
- Danilo Donati – Flash Gordon
- 1981: Milena Canonero – Chariots of Fire
- Bob Ringwood – Excalibur
- Tom Rand – The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Anthony Powell – Tess
- 1982: Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode – Blade Runner
- Bhanu Athaiya and John Mollo – Gandhi
- Shirley Ann Russell – Reds
- 1983: Piero Tosi – La Traviata
- Marik Vos-Lundh – Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
- Barbara Lane – Heat and Dust
- Ruth Morley – Tootsie
- 1984: Gabriella Pescucci – Once Upon a Time in America
- Jenny Beavan and John Bright – The Bostonians
- Elizabeth Waller – The Company of Wolves
- Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle – Swann in Love (Un amour de Swann)
- 1985: Milena Canonero – The Cotton Club
- Theodore Pistek – Amadeus
- Charles Knode – Legend
- Judy Moorcroft – A Passage to India
- 1986: Jenny Beavan and John Bright – A Room with a View
- Enrico Sabbatini – The Mission
- Milena Canonero – Out of Africa
- Emi Wada – Ran
- 1987: Jeffrey Kurland – Radio Days
- Shirley Ann Russell – Hope and Glory
- Joyce Carter, Danielle Garderes, Claude Gastine, Judith Loom, Sally Neale, Jackie Smith and Barbara Sonnex – Little Dorrit
- Marilyn Vance – The Untouchables
- 1988: James Acheson – The Last Emperor
- Judy Moorcroft – The Dressmaker
- Bob Ringwood – Empire of the Sun
- Marit Allen – White Mischief
- 1989: Gabriella Pescucci – The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Bob Ringwood – Batman
- James Acheson – Dangerous Liaisons
- Phyllis Dalton – Henry V
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