SET DESIGN

By: Kenji

Lola Montes

Metropolis

Kwaidan

Intolerance

Dogville

Playtime

2001: A Space Odyssey

Set designers often go unheralded. List in year order. Suggestions welcome.

• 01
  The Astronomer's Dream
  Georges Méliès
• 02
  Cabiria
  Giovanni Pastrone
• 03
  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  D.W. Griffith
• 04
  Tih Minh
  Louis Feuillade
• 05
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene
• 06
  The Golem: How He Came into the World
  Carl Boese
• 07
  The Wildcat
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 08
  Siegfried
  Fritz Lang
• 09
  The Thief of Bagdad
  Raoul Walsh
• 10
  Napoléon
  Abel Gance
• 11
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 12
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 13
  Street Angel
  Frank Borzage
• 14
  L'argent
  Marcel L'Herbier
• 15
  Trouble in Paradise
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 16
  King Kong
  Merian C. Cooper
• 17
  The Scarlet Empress
  Josef von Sternberg
• 18
  Top Hat
  Mark Sandrich
• 19
  The Devil Is a Woman
  Josef von Sternberg
• 20
  Bride of Frankenstein
  James Whale
• 21
  Carnival in Flanders
  Jacques Feyder
• 22
  Things to Come
  William Cameron Menzies
• 23
  Lost Horizon
  Frank Capra
• 24
  The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Michael Curtiz
• 25
  The Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming
• 26
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 27
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 28
  The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 29
  The Thief of Bagdad
  Ludwig Berger
• 30
  Rebecca
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 31
  How Green Was My Valley
  John Ford
• 32
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 33
  The 47 Ronin
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 34
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 35
  Ivan the Terrible, Part I
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 36
  Henry V
  Laurence Olivier
• 37
  Children of Paradise
  Marcel Carné
• 38
  Great Expectations
  David Lean
• 39
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Michael Powell
• 40
  Beauty and the Beast
  Jean Cocteau
• 41
  Black Narcissus
  Michael Powell
• 42
  Oliver Twist
  David Lean
• 43
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 44
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 45
  Sunset Boulevard
  Billy Wilder
• 46
  An American in Paris
  Vincente Minnelli
• 47
  Casque d'or
  Jacques Becker
• 48
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 49
  Le plaisir
  Max Ophüls
• 50
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 51
  The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
  Roy Rowland
• 52
  The Band Wagon
  Vincente Minnelli
• 53
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 54
  Senso
  Luchino Visconti
• 55
  The Silver Chalice
  Victor Saville
• 56
  Lola Montès
  Max Ophüls
• 57
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 58
  Forbidden Planet
  Fred M. Wilcox
• 59
  Le notti bianche
  Luchino Visconti
• 60
  Ben-Hur
  William Wyler
• 61
  Mughal-E-Azam
  K. Asif
• 62
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 63
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 64
  Kwaidan
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 65
  Fantastic Voyage
  Richard Fleischer
• 66
  You Only Live Twice
  Lewis Gilbert
• 67
  Casino Royale
  Val Guest
• 68
  PlayTime
  Jacques Tati
• 69
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 70
  Pakeezah
  Kamal Amrohi
• 71
  King Boxer: Five Fingers of Death
  Jeong Chang-hwa
• 72
  Cries and Whispers
  Ingmar Bergman
• 73
  The Godfather: Part II
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 74
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 75
  Perceval le Gallois
  Éric Rohmer
• 76
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 77
  Fanny and Alexander — The Theatrical Version
  Ingmar Bergman
• 78
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 79
  Brazil
  Terry Gilliam
• 80
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 81
  The Last Emperor
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 82
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 83
  Edward Scissorhands
  Tim Burton
• 84
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 85
  Howards End
  James Ivory
• 86
  Schindler's List
  Steven Spielberg
• 87
  The Age of Innocence
  Martin Scorsese
• 88
  Smoking/No Smoking
  Alain Resnais
• 89
  Titanic
  James Cameron
• 90
  Flowers of Shanghai
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 91
  Tears of the Black Tiger
  Wisit Sasanatieng
• 92
  Sleepy Hollow
  Tim Burton
• 93
  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  Peter Jackson
• 94
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 95
  Princess Raccoon
  Seijun Suzuki
• 96
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 97
  You, the Living
  Roy Andersson
• 98
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 99
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 100
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese