---
name: "Molly Hughes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/molly-hughes"
fi1m_id: "molly-hughes"
imdb_id: "nm1079591"
tmdb_id: 89383
roles: ["Art direction"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-03T01:41:11.678790+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."
---

# Molly Hughes

## Identity

Molly Hughes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/molly-hughes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** molly-hughes
- **IMDb ID:** nm1079591
- **TMDB ID:** 89383
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1079591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89383

Art direction. Born in Wheeling.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 66 (1), 2010s 71 (3), 2020s 51 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 60 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 3, Drama 3, Fantasy 3, Comedy 1, Family 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,407m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1079591/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89383

## Coming up

- *F.A.S.T.* (2027-05-12), Production Design

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Hillbilly Elegy*](https://film.one/film/hillbilly-elegy.md) (38)

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

## Biography

Molly Hughes is a production designer and art director. She earned an MFA in set design from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and began her career in New York’s Off-Broadway theatre scene before moving into feature films.

Early film work included serving as a draughtsman on several *Harry Potter* films and as art director on *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* (2009) and *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Parts 1 and 2* (2010–2011). She was also art director on *War Horse* (2011) and supervising art director on *The Bourne Legacy* (2012). As production designer her credits include *The Fault in Our Stars* (2014), *The One and Only Ivan* (2020), *Hillbilly Elegy* (2020), *I’m Thinking of Ending Things* (2020), *The New Mutants* (2020), *Ava* (2020), *Thirteen Lives* (2022), *The Beanie Bubble* (2023) and *Pain Hustlers* (2023).

Hughes is a native of Wheeling and holds dual UK and US citizenship. She is a co-founder of the Foxfire Film Festival and has received a British Film Designers Guild award for her work on *Thirteen Lives*.

*Sources: foxfire-staging.mystagingwebsite.com, imdb.com, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Hillbilly Elegy* (2020), Fi1m 38, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/hillbilly-elegy.md)
- *The One and Only Ivan* (2020), Fi1m 64, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-one-and-only-ivan.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2* (2011), Fi1m 83, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2.md)
- *War Horse* (2011), Fi1m 62, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/war-horse.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1* (2010), Fi1m 67, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-1.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* (2009), Fi1m 66, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *F.A.S.T.* (2027), Production Design
- *Pain Hustlers* (2023), Production Design
- *The Beanie Bubble* (2023), Production Design
- *Thirteen Lives* (2022), Production Design, Production Designer
- *Hillbilly Elegy* (2020), Production Design — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/hillbilly-elegy.md)
- *I'm Thinking of Ending Things* (2020), Production Design
- *The New Mutants* (2020), Production Design
- *The One and Only Ivan* (2020), Production Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-one-and-only-ivan.md)
- *Ava* (2020), Production Design
- *Louder Than Bombs* (2015), Production Design
- *Two Night Stand* (2014), Production Design
- *The Fault in Our Stars* (2014), Production Design
- *Every Secret Thing* (2014), Production Design
- *The Bourne Legacy* (2012), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-legacy.md)
- *War Horse* (2011), as Art Direction — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/war-horse.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2* (2011), as Art Direction — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1* (2010), as Art Direction — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-1.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* (2009), as Art Direction — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince.md)

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