---
name: "Michael Giaimo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-giaimo"
fi1m_id: "michael-giaimo"
imdb_id: "nm0316062"
tmdb_id: 1490953
wikidata_id: "Q28869393"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 61
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-03T00:51:49.707528+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."
---

# Michael Giaimo

## Identity

Michael Giaimo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-giaimo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-giaimo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0316062
- **TMDB ID:** 1490953
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28869393
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28869393, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316062/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1490953

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1995–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Chris Buck](https://film.one/person/chris-buck.md), [Jennifer Lee](https://film.one/person/jennifer-lee.md), [Peter Del Vecho](https://film.one/person/peter-del-vecho.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 54 (1), 2010s 70 (2), 2020s 49 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 61 to 59 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 4, Animation 4, Family 4, Fantasy 3, Comedy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,329m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28869393, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316062/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1490953

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Frozen II*](https://film.one/film/frozen-ii.md) (65), [*Wish*](https://film.one/film/wish.md) (49)

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

## Biography

Michael Giaimo is an American production designer, art director and animator. He has worked extensively with Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Giaimo served as art director and character designer on *Pocahontas* (1995) and as art director on *Frozen* (2013). He was production designer on *Frozen II* (2019), *Olaf's Frozen Adventure* (2017), *Once Upon a Snowman* (2020) and *Wish* (2023). He began his career at Disney in the early 1980s, left the studio in 1986 to freelance, and returned as art director for *Pocahontas*. He has also taught at CalArts.

*Sources: imdb.com, disney.fandom.com, animationmagazine.net.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Wish* (2023), Fi1m 49, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/wish.md)
- *Frozen II* (2019), Fi1m 65, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/frozen-ii.md)
- *Frozen* (2013), Fi1m 75, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/frozen.md)
- *Pocahontas* (1995), Fi1m 54, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/pocahontas.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Wish* (2023), Production Design — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/wish.md)
- *Once Upon a Snowman* (2020), Production Design
- *Frozen II* (2019), Production Design — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/frozen-ii.md)
- *Olaf's Frozen Adventure* (2017), Production Design
- *Frozen Fever* (2015), as Art Direction
- *Frozen* (2013), as Art Direction, Visual Development — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/frozen.md)
- *Pocahontas* (1995), as Art Direction — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/pocahontas.md)
- *Box-Office Bunny* (1991), Production Design
- *Next Door* (1990), Thanks
- *Palm Springs* (1989), Thanks
- *Winter* (1988), Thanks
- *Sport Goofy in Soccermania* (1987), Story
- *Somewhere in the Arctic...* (1986), Thanks
- *Swabbies* (1985), Writer
- *Fun with Mr. Future* (1982), Story
- *Nitemare* (1980), Music
- *Doctor of Doom* (1979), as Bob Garcia
- *Lady and the Lamp* (1979), Character Designer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/michael-giaimo