| Year | Film | Recipient |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Dan Hennah, Alan Lee, and Grant Major |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Yohei Taneda, David Wasco, and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Lilly Kilvert and Gretchen Rau |
| 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Robert Gould and William Sandell |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | Jeannine Oppewall and Leslie Pope |
| 2003 | Whale Rider | Grant Major and Grace Mok |
| 2004 | De-Lovely | John Bush, John Hill, and Eve Stewart |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo |
| 2004 | House of Flying Daggers | Zhong Han |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | Celia Bobak and Anthony D. G. Pratt |
| 2004 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Pier Luigi Basile, Kevin Conran, and Kirsten Conran |
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana MacDonald |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | James D. Bissell |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Arthur Max |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | John Myhre |
| 2005 | Modigliani | Luigi Marchione and Vlad Vieru |
| 2005 | Sin City | David Hack and Jeanette Scott |
| 2005 | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | Gavin Bocquet and Richard Roberts |
| 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Henry Bumstead, Richard C. Goddard, and Jack G. Taylor Jr. |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Nancy Haigh, John Myhre, and Tomas Voth |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | K. K. Barrett |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Eugenio Caballero |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | Stephan O. Gessler, Sarah Horton, Sebastian T. Krawinkel, Owen Paterson, and Marco Bittner Rosser |
| 2007 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | David Allday and Guy Hendrix Dyas |
| 2007 | Across the Universe | Mark Friedberg and Peter Rogness |
| 2007 | Amazing Grace | David Allday, Matthew Gray, and Charles Wood |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Martin Gendron, Patricia Norris, and Troy Sizemore |
| 2007 | Hairspray | Dennis Davenport and David Gropman |
| 2007 | Sunshine | Gary Freeman, Stephen Morahan, Denis Schnegg, and Mark Tildesley |
| 2008 | Australia | Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, and Beverly Dunn |
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Thomas Brown, Lynne Huitson, Ben Munro, and Alice Normington |
| 2008 | City of Ember | Jon Billington, Ross Bradshaw, James Foster, Ashleigh Jeffers, and Martin Laing |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Donald Graham Burt and Tom Reta |
| 2008 | The Duchess | Michael Carlin and Karen Wakefield |
| 2008 | Revolutionary Road | Teresa Carriker-Thayer, John Kasarda, Nicholas Lundy, and Kristi Zea |
| 2009 | A Single Man | Dan Bishop and Ian Phillips |
| 2009 | 2012 | Barry Chusid and Elizabeth Wilcox |
| 2009 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Terry Gilliam, Anastasia Masaro, and Dave Warren |
| 2009 | Public Enemies | Nathan Crowley, Patrick Lumb, and William Ladd Skinner |
| 2009 | Red Cliff | Eddy Wong and Tim Yip |
| 2009 | The Road | Chris Kennedy |