---
name: "Leslie Tomkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/leslie-tomkins"
fi1m_id: "leslie-tomkins"
imdb_id: "nm0866777"
tmdb_id: 5021
wikidata_id: "Q6531180"
roles: ["Art direction"]
born: "1 January 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 14
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_over: 14
updated: "2026-10-05T12:42:38.241689+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."
---

# Leslie Tomkins

## Identity

Leslie Tomkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/leslie-tomkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** leslie-tomkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0866777
- **TMDB ID:** 5021
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6531180
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Tomkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6531180, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866777/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5021

Art direction. Born 1 January 1948 in Hammersmith.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Born:** 1 January 1948, Hammersmith
- **Active:** 1977–2018
- **Also known as:** Les Tomkins, Leslie William Tomkins
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 88 (1), 1980s 70 (6), 1990s 70 (2), 2000s 64 (1), 2010s 61 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 65 across 13 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 4 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 6, Drama 6, Fantasy 5, Thriller 4, Action 3, Comedy 2
- **Screen time:** 29 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,598m across 13 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Tomkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6531180, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866777/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5021

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*A Passage to India*](https://film.one/film/a-passage-to-india.md) (71), [*Yentl*](https://film.one/film/yentl.md) (65)
- **HBO Max:** [*Eyes Wide Shut*](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Leslie Tomkins is a British art director and production designer. Born in 1948 in Hammersmith, London, he began working in film in the 1970s and has credits as art director, supervising art director and production designer.

He collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on *The Shining* (1980), *Full Metal Jacket* (1987) and *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), where he served as production designer. Other notable credits include supervising art director on *Batman* (1989), *Sleepy Hollow* (1999) and *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* (2005), and art director on *Cinderella* (2015) and *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018).

Tomkins received an Academy Award nomination for best art direction for *Yentl* (1983) and won a Golden Satellite Award and an Art Directors Guild Award for *Sleepy Hollow*.

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

## On Fi1m (14)

- *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018), Fi1m 46, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald.md)
- *Cinderella* (2015), Fi1m 72, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/cinderella.md)
- *Fast & Furious 6* (2013), Fi1m 70, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/fast-and-furious-6.md)
- *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010), Fi1m 56, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time.md)
- *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* (2005), Fi1m 64, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory.md)
- *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), Fi1m 81, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md)
- *Kafka* (1991), Fi1m 58, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/kafka.md)
- *Batman* (1989), Fi1m 77, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/batman.md)
- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), Fi1m 81, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)
- *National Lampoon's European Vacation* (1985), Fi1m 40, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/national-lampoons-european-vacation.md)
- *A Passage to India* (1984), Fi1m 71, Production Design, Art Direction, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/a-passage-to-india.md)
- *Yentl* (1983), Fi1m 65, Production Design, Production design, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/yentl.md)
- *The Shining* (1980), Fi1m 88, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)
- *Sorcerer* (1977), Fi1m 88, Draughtsman — [page](https://film.one/film/sorcerer.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018), as Art Direction — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald.md)
- *Cinderella* (2015), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/cinderella.md)
- *47 Ronin* (2013), as Art Direction
- *Fast & Furious 6* (2013), as Art Direction — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/fast-and-furious-6.md)
- *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time* (2010), as Art Direction — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time.md)
- *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* (2005), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory.md)
- *Troy* (2004), Supervising Art Director
- *Planet of the Apes* (2001), as Art Direction — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/planet-of-the-apes-2001.md)
- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md)
- *Sleepy Hollow* (1999), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/sleepy-hollow.md)
- *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), Production Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md)
- *The Saint* (1997), Supervising Art Director
- *White Squall* (1996), Production Design
- *Judge Dredd* (1995), Supervising Art Director
- *Black Beauty* (1994), Supervising Art Director
- *Son of the Pink Panther* (1993), as Art Direction
- *1492: Conquest of Paradise* (1992), Supervising Art Director
- *The Power of One* (1992), as Art Direction
- *Kafka* (1991), as Art Direction — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/kafka.md)
- *Born to Ride* (1991), Supervising Art Director
- *Hands of a Murderer* (1990), as Art Direction
- *The Old Man and the Sea* (1990), as Art Direction
- *Batman* (1989), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/batman.md)
- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), as Art Direction — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)
- *Solarbabies* (1986), as Art Direction
- *National Lampoon's European Vacation* (1985), as Art Direction — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/national-lampoons-european-vacation.md)
- *A Passage to India* (1984), Production Design, Art Direction — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/a-passage-to-india.md)
- *The Keep* (1983), as Art Direction
- *Yentl* (1983), Production Design, Art Direction — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/yentl.md)
- *Green Ice* (1981), as Art Direction
- *The Shining* (1980), as Art Direction — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)
- *Sorcerer* (1977), as Draughtsman — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/sorcerer.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1984: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Yentl*

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

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