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name: "Kim Sinclair"
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roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "10 July 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T12:36:04.741489+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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# Kim Sinclair

Production designer. Born 10 July 1954 in Auckland, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 10 July 1954, Auckland, New Zealand
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 81 (1), 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 66 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 3, Drama 2, Fantasy 1, Romance 1, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,917m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Sinclair, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1741571, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801662/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12653

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Slow West*](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md) (77)

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## Biography

Kim Sinclair is a New Zealand production designer and art director. Born on 10 July 1954 in Auckland, he began his career in New Zealand before working on international productions.

He is known for his work as supervising art director and set decorator on *Avatar* (2009), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Other credits include production design on *Slow West* (2015), *The Dark Horse* (2014) and *M3GAN* (2022), and art direction on *Man of Steel* (2013), *The Last Samurai* (2003) and *Cast Away* (2000).

Sinclair won a New Zealand Film Award for Best Production Design for *Slow West* and has contributed to films shot in multiple countries, including work for directors such as James Cameron and Steven Spielberg.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nzonscreen.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Avatar: Fire and Ash* (2025), Fi1m 58, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/avatar-fire-and-ash.md)
- *Slow West* (2015), Fi1m 77, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md)
- *Cast Away* (2000), Fi1m 81, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/cast-away.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Avatar: Fire and Ash* (2025), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/avatar-fire-and-ash.md)
- *M3GAN* (2022), Production Design
- *Avatar: The Way of Water* (2022), Supervising Art Director
- *The Meg* (2018), Supervising Art Director
- *Pete's Dragon* (2016), Supervising Art Director
- *Slow West* (2015), Production Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md)
- *The Dark Horse* (2014), Production Design
- *Dawn of the Planet of the Apes* (2014), Visual Effects Art Director
- *Man of Steel* (2013), Art Direction
- *The Adventures of Tintin* (2011), Visual Effects Art Director
- *Avatar* (2009), Set Decoration, Supervising Art Director
- *Under the Mountain* (2009), Production Design
- *Black Sheep* (2006), Production Design
- *The Legend of Zorro* (2005), Supervising Art Director
- *The Last Samurai* (2003), Art Direction
- *Beyond Borders* (2003), Art Direction
- *Atomic Twister* (2002), Production Design
- *Her Majesty* (2001), Production Design
- *Cast Away* (2000), Art Direction — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/cast-away.md)
- *Vertical Limit* (2000), Art Direction
- *Nightmare Man* (1999), Production Design
- *The Climb* (1998), Production Design
- *Every Woman's Dream* (1996), Art Direction
- *The Tommyknockers* (1993), series, Art Direction
- *Alex* (1993), Production Design
- *My Grandpa Is a Vampire* (1992), Production Design
- *Willow* (1988), Art Direction
- *The Quiet Earth* (1985), Set Designer
- *Constance* (1985), Art Direction
- *The Wind in the Willows*, Production Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2010: Best Production Design (won), for *Avatar*

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

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