---
name: "Jonathan McKinstry"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-mckinstry"
roles: ["Art direction"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T20:21:15.805269+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."
---

# Jonathan McKinstry

Art direction.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Active:** 1996–2014
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 78 (2), 2010s 76 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Thriller 2, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $475m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571990/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18989

## Coming up

- *The Beast* (2026-10-09), Production Design

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Penny Dreadful*](https://film.one/tv/penny-dreadful.md) (76)

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## Biography

Jonathan McKinstry is a production designer and art director. He began working in the film industry in the early 1980s after studying interior design, initially taking roles at Granada Television before progressing through art department positions on feature films.

His credits as supervising art director or art director include *Mission: Impossible* (1996), *Love Actually* (2003), *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010) and *Alexander* (2004). As production designer he has worked on the series *Penny Dreadful* (2014–2016), for which he received Emmy nominations, *Shadow and Bone* (2021) and *The Terror* (2018–2019).

McKinstry has also received Emmy nominations for his work on *The Borgias*.

*Sources: imdb.com, televisionacademy.com, pushing-pixels.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Penny Dreadful* (2014), Fi1m 76, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/tv/penny-dreadful.md)
- *Michael Collins* (1996), Fi1m 75, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/michael-collins.md)
- *Mission: Impossible* (1996), Fi1m 81, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *The Beast* (2026), Production Design
- *Prey for the Devil* (2022), Production Design
- *The Enforcer* (2022), Production Design
- *Thai Cave Rescue* (2022), series, Production Designer
- *Shadow and Bone* (2021), series, Production Design
- *Penny Dreadful* (2014), series, Production Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/penny-dreadful.md)
- *The Borgias* (2011), series, Production Design, Supervising Art Director
- *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010), Supervising Art Director
- *Garden of Eden* (2008), Art Direction
- *Love in the Time of Cholera* (2007), Art Direction
- *Alexander* (2004), Supervising Art Director
- *Love Actually* (2003), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/love-actually.md)
- *Reign of Fire* (2002), Supervising Art Director
- *Angela's Ashes* (1999), Art Direction
- *Deep Blue Sea* (1999), Assistant Art Director
- *Sphere* (1998), Art Direction
- *Michael Collins* (1996), Art Direction — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/michael-collins.md)
- *Mission: Impossible* (1996), Art Direction — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible.md)
- *Mary Shelley's Frankenstein* (1994), Assistant Art Director
- *A Far Off Place* (1993), Art Direction
- *1492: Conquest of Paradise* (1992), Draughtsman
- *Alien³* (1992), Assistant Art Director
- *Total Recall* (1990), Assistant Art Director
- *Mountains of the Moon* (1990), Assistant Art Director

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