---
name: "Amanda Neale"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/amanda-neale"
fi1m_id: "amanda-neale"
imdb_id: "nm0623692"
tmdb_id: 989349
wikidata_id: "Q26722573"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 56
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-22T02:07:26.747468+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."
---

# Amanda Neale

## Identity

Amanda Neale

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/amanda-neale
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** amanda-neale
- **IMDb ID:** nm0623692
- **TMDB ID:** 989349
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26722573
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26722573, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623692/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/989349

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 49 (1), 2020s 59 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 56 to 54 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 2, Action 1, Comedy 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,622m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26722573, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623692/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/989349

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Meg*](https://film.one/film/the-meg.md) (49)

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

## Biography

Amanda Neale is a New Zealand costume designer working in film and television. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Women’s Studies from Canterbury University and moved to Wellington in the mid-1990s to study motion picture production. She began in the art department before specialising in costume, gaining experience on sets including the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Neale has designed costumes for independent New Zealand features and international productions. Her credits include *Boy* (2012), *What We Do in the Shadows* (2014), *Truth* (2015), *Pete’s Dragon* (2016), *The Meg* (2018), *Adrift* (2018) and the television series *Sweet Tooth* (2021–2023) and *Wellington Paranormal* (2018). She received a New Zealand Screen Award for *Fracture* (2005) and further nominations for other films. Recent work includes *A Minecraft Movie* (2025).

*Sources: independentartistgroup.com, m.the-numbers.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Heart of the Beast* (2026), Fi1m 66, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/heart-of-the-beast.md)
- *A Minecraft Movie* (2025), Fi1m 52, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/a-minecraft-movie.md)
- *The Meg* (2018), Fi1m 49, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-meg.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Heart of the Beast* (2026), Costume Design — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/heart-of-the-beast.md)
- *A Minecraft Movie* (2025), Costume Design — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/a-minecraft-movie.md)
- *Sweet Tooth* (2021), series, Costume Design
- *The Meg* (2018), Costume Design — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/the-meg.md)
- *Pete's Dragon* (2016), Costume Design
- *Apis* (2016), Production Design
- *Truth* (2015), Costume Design
- *Cub* (2014), Costume Designer
- *Boy* (2010), Costume Design
- *Dangerous Ride* (2010), Wardrobe Assistant
- *Separation City* (2009), Costumer, Costume Designer
- *Show of Hands* (2008), Costume Designer
- *Eagle vs Shark* (2007), Costume Design
- *Fracture* (2004), Costume Design
- *For Good* (2003), Costume Design
- *Scarfies* (1999), Costume Designer

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