Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in costume design (black-and-white) category

Actors : James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, John Wayne,
Directors : John Ford,

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

Actors : Joan Crawford, Wesley Addy, Victor Buono, Bette Davis,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Actors : Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Olivia de Havilland, Bette Davis,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

Actors : Charles Bickford, Jack Lemmon, Jack Klugman, Lee Remick,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Richard Burton, Sue Lyon,
Directors : John Huston,

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Miriam Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, José Ferrer, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

Actors : Natalie Wood, Edie Adams, Steve McQueen, Herschel Bernardi,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...

Actors : José Luis de Vilallonga, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando, Janet Margolin,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Sidney Poitier,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A college volunteer at the crisis phone gets a call from a suicide caller.

Actors : Jesse White, Elaine Stewart, Karen Steele, Ray Danton,
Directors : Budd Boetticher,

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself...

Actors : Elizabeth Ercy, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Dean Martin, Yvette Mimieux, Wendy Hiller,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Paolo Stoppa, Anthony Quinn, Irina Demick,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a ...

Actors : Rod Steiger, Eli Wallach, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Collins,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.

Actors : Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Don DeFore, Ruth Hussey,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Larry and Kitty are two middle-class suburbanites who find themselves growing bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other grating in manner, they ...