---
name: "Alec Contestabile"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alec-contestabile"
fi1m_id: "alec-contestabile"
imdb_id: "nm3252676"
tmdb_id: 1571063
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:48:18.957964+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."
---

# Alec Contestabile

## Identity

Alec Contestabile

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alec-contestabile
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alec-contestabile
- **IMDb ID:** nm3252676
- **TMDB ID:** 1571063
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3252676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1571063

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3252676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1571063

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hacks*](https://film.one/tv/hacks.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alec Contestabile is a production designer working primarily in television. He studied film at Chapman University. An internship on *The Amazing Spider-Man* led to work on *Mad Men*, where he met production designer Jon Carlos.

Contestabile has served as production designer on series including *Black Monday* (2019–2021), *Physical* (2021–2023) and *Hacks* (2022). For the second season of *Hacks* he oversaw more than 130 sets for the road-trip storyline and received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour). He has also worked as supervising art director on *Our Flag Means Death* (2022) and as production designer on films such as *Smiley* (2012) and *The Thinning* (2016).

*Sources: deadline.com, imdb.com, mande.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hacks* (2021), Fi1m 83, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/hacks.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Assassin* (2023), Production Design
- *Our Flag Means Death* (2022), series, Supervising Art Director
- *Physical* (2021), series, Production Design
- *Hacks* (2021), series, Production Design — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/hacks.md)
- *Fanboy* (2019), as Art Direction
- *Black Monday* (2019), series, Production Design
- *Battle of the Sexes* (2017), Assistant Art Director
- *Rhett & Link's Buddy System* (2016), series, Production Design
- *The Thinning* (2016), Production Design
- *Girl Flu.* (2016), Production Design
- *Listening* (2015), Production Design
- *Sway* (2014), Production Design
- *Storytellers* (2013), series, Production Design
- *Smiley* (2012), Production Design
- *Movement One* (2012), Production Design

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