Academy Awards Design Categories

These categories are essential, they look at what the camera sees, from the background sets and the costumes worn, to the person responsible for making sure the camera picks it all up.
Production Design

At the Movies ~ Les Misérables, 2012 (Photo credit: erjkprunczýk)

Lincoln - Rick Carter (production) / Jim Erickson (set decoration)
Life Of Pi - David Gropman (production) / Anna Pinnock (set decoration)
Les Miserables - Eve Stewart (production) / Anna Lynch-Robinson (set decoration)
Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood (production) / Kate Spencer (set decoration)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dan Hennah (production) / Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (set decoration) 

Winner : Les Miserables - Eve Stewart / Anna Lynch-Robinson


Costume Design

Les Miserables - Paco Delgado 
Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka 
Snow White And The Huntsman - Colleen Atwood 
Lincoln - Joanna Johnston 
Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran

Winner : Les Miserables - Paco Delgado


Cinematography


Skyfall - Roger Deakins
Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained - Robert Richardson
Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda
Lincoln - Janusz Kaminski

Winner : Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda