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name: "Akin McKenzie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/akin-mckenzie"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:54:03.855389+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Akin McKenzie

Production designer. Born in Maryland, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4224161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1273861

## Coming up

- *Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother* (2026-09-25), Production Design

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*When They See Us*](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md) (84)

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## Biography

Akin McKenzie is a production designer. A graduate of UCLA Film School, he began working in art direction and production design on independent films before moving to larger projects.

His credits include production design on the television series *When They See Us* (2019) and *Random Acts of Flyness* (2018), and on the films *Wildlife* (2018), *Native Son* (2019), *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021) and *The Woman King* (2022). He has collaborated repeatedly with director Terence Nance and has also created films for musicians including Jay-Z, Common and Rage Against the Machine.

McKenzie has lectured on production design at UCLA and served as an advisor to the Sundance Institute Directors Lab and the Cannes Pavilion Afriques. He is based in Maryland.

*Sources: productiondesignerscollective.org, imdb.com, motionpictures.org, awardsdaily.com, filmmakermagazine.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *When They See Us* (2019), Fi1m 84, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother* (2026), Production Design
- *The Woman King* (2022), Production Design
- *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), Production Design
- *Wake Up* (2020), Production Design
- *When They See Us* (2019), series, Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)
- *Native Son* (2019), Production Design
- *Wildlife* (2018), Production Design
- *Random Acts of Flyness* (2018), series, Production Design
- *Smile* (2017), Production Design
- *11:55* (2017), Production Design
- *The Discovery* (2017), Production Design
- *Aftermath* (2017), Production Design
- *Letter to the Free* (2016), Production Design
- *Goat* (2016), Production Design
- *Wiener-Dog* (2016), Production Design
- *The Abandoned* (2015), Production Design
- *Drinking Buddies* (2013), Art Direction

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