---
name: "Alison Chitty"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alison-chitty"
fi1m_id: "alison-chitty"
imdb_id: "nm0158360"
tmdb_id: 1657215
wikidata_id: "Q4727048"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "16 October 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T15:43:19.916112+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."
---

# Alison Chitty

## Identity

Alison Chitty

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alison-chitty
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alison-chitty
- **IMDb ID:** nm0158360
- **TMDB ID:** 1657215
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4727048
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Chitty, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4727048, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158360/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1657215

Production designer. Born 16 October 1948.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 16 October 1948
- **Active:** 1991–1996
- **Frequently works with:** [Mike Leigh](https://film.one/person/mike-leigh.md), [Simon Channing-Williams](https://film.one/person/simon-channing-williams.md), [Claire Skinner](https://film.one/person/claire-skinner.md), [Timothy Spall](https://film.one/person/timothy-spall.md)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 85 to 84 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $17m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Chitty, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4727048, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158360/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1657215

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Naked*](https://film.one/film/naked.md) (84), [*Life Is Sweet*](https://film.one/film/life-is-sweet.md) (84)
- **HBO Max:** [*Secrets & Lies*](https://film.one/film/secrets-and-lies.md) (88)

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

## Biography

Alison Chitty is a British production designer, set designer and costume designer. She trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design, and was later resident designer at the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent and at the Royal National Theatre for eight years.

She is known for her collaborations with director Mike Leigh, for whom she served as production designer on *Life Is Sweet* (1990), *Naked* (1993) and *Secrets & Lies* (1996). Chitty has also designed extensively for opera companies including the English National Opera, Royal Opera House and Santa Fe Opera, and for theatre directors including Sir Peter Hall and Francesca Zambello. She directed the Motley Theatre Design Course from the early 1990s.

Chitty received an OBE in 2004 and was elected a Royal Designer for Industry in 2009. She has won two Olivier Awards for Best Costume Design, for *Remembrance of Things Past* (2001) and *The Voysey Inheritance* (2007).

*Sources: rayfieldallied.com, bbk.ac.uk, wikimili.com, pro.imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Secrets & Lies* (1996), Fi1m 88, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/secrets-and-lies.md)
- *Naked* (1993), Fi1m 84, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/naked.md)
- *Life Is Sweet* (1991), Fi1m 84, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-sweet.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *The ROH Live: Nabucco* (2016), Set Designer
- *Verdi Nabucco* (2015), Production Design
- *The Pirates of Penzance* (2015), Costume Design
- *Theodora* (2015), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Wagner : Parsifal* (2013), Art Designer
- *The Turn of the Screw* (2004), Production Designer
- *Secrets & Lies* (1996), Production Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/secrets-and-lies.md)
- *Naked* (1993), Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/naked.md)
- *A Sense of History* (1992), Production Design
- *Life Is Sweet* (1991), Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-sweet.md)
- *Orpheus Descending* (1990), Costume Design
- *Aria* (1987), Costume Designer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Royal Designer for Industry 2009: Royal Designer for Industry (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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