---
name: "Laurence Bennett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laurence-bennett"
fi1m_id: "laurence-bennett"
imdb_id: "nm0071879"
tmdb_id: 25550
wikidata_id: "Q3218860"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T07:16:32.926843+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."
---

# Laurence Bennett

## Identity

Laurence Bennett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laurence-bennett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** laurence-bennett
- **IMDb ID:** nm0071879
- **TMDB ID:** 25550
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3218860
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Bennett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3218860, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071879/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25550

Production designer. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 2005–2015
- **Frequently works with:** [Paul Haggis](https://film.one/person/paul-haggis.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 54 (1), 2010s 80 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 78 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Romance 1, War & Politics 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $232m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Bennett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3218860, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071879/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25550

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Artist*](https://film.one/film/the-artist.md) (82)
- **Hulu:** [*Show Me a Hero*](https://film.one/tv/show-me-a-hero.md) (78)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Crash*](https://film.one/film/crash-2005.md) (54)

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

## Biography

Laurence Bennett is an American production designer. He studied art at Occidental College in Los Angeles and Waseda University in Tokyo. After working in fringe theatre and lecturing at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, he returned to Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

Bennett was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for *The Artist* (2011), shared with set decorator Robert Gould. He is also known for production design on *Crash* (2004), *The Next Three Days* (2010), *Freedom Writers* (2007) and *In the Valley of Elah* (2007), as well as television series including *Billions*.

*Sources: deadline.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Show Me a Hero* (2015), Fi1m 78, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/show-me-a-hero.md)
- *The Artist* (2011), Fi1m 82, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-artist.md)
- *Crash* (2005), Fi1m 54, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/crash-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Dog* (2022), Production Design
- *The Water Man* (2020), Production Design
- *Above Suspicion* (2019), Production Design
- *The Wizard of Lies* (2017), Production Design
- *Billions* (2016), series, Production Design
- *Show Me a Hero* (2015), series, Production Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/show-me-a-hero.md)
- *Sneaky Pete* (2015), series, Production Design
- *Dark Places* (2015), Production Design
- *Third Person* (2014), Production Design
- *The Company You Keep* (2012), Production Design
- *The Artist* (2011), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-artist.md)
- *The Next Three Days* (2010), Production Design
- *The Starter Wife* (2008), series, Production Design
- *Traitor* (2008), Production Design
- *One Missed Call* (2008), Production Design
- *In the Valley of Elah* (2007), Production Design
- *Freedom Writers* (2007), Production Design
- *Crash* (2005), Production Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/crash-2005.md)
- *Women vs. Men* (2002), Production Design
- *Thinner* (1996), Production Design
- *Divas* (1995), Production Design
- *The Companion* (1994), Production Design
- *Fire in the Sky* (1993), Production Design
- *Modern Girls* (1986), Production Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2012: Best Production Design (nominated), for *The Artist*

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

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