Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An sami rukunin Art Direction tun lokacin da aka kirkiro Academy Awards. Har zuwa 1939
, an ba da lambar yabo ɗaya kawai. Daga 1940 zuwa 1966, an ba da kyaututtuka biyu, ɗaya don fina-finai baki da fari, ɗayan kuma don fina-finai masu launi. An haɗu da lambobin yabo guda biyu na ɗan gajeren lokaci a shekarar 1957 da 1958, kuma an sake haɗa su har abada a cikin rukuni ɗaya daga 1967. Duk fina-finai na harshe na waje da aka zaɓa don Kyautar Gudanar da Fasaha tsakanin 1940 da 1966 sun sami lambar yabo a cikin rukunin "Black-and-White", ban da "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965), wanda aka zaɓa a cikin rukunin "Launi".