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name: "Nigel Phelps"
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roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "16 March 1962"
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# Nigel Phelps

Production designer. Born 16 March 1962 in Lincolnshire.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 16 March 1962, Lincolnshire

## Biography

Nigel Phelps is an English production designer and art director. Born on 16 March 1962, he trained at the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career as a draftsman and storyboard artist, working with production designer Anton Furst on films including *The Company of Wolves* (1984) and *Full Metal Jacket* (1987).

Phelps served as art director on Tim Burton's *Batman* (1989), for which the art department received an Academy Award. He later became a production designer, with credits including *Judge Dredd* (1995), *Troy* (2004), *Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen* (2009), *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* (2011), *World War Z* (2013), *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017), *Pokémon Detective Pikachu* (2019) and *Thor: Love and Thunder* (2022). He has received three MTV Video Music Award nominations for art direction.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen* (2009), Fi1m 34, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen.md)

## Also known for

- *World War Z* (2013), Production Design
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017), Production Design
- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)
- *Troy* (2004), Production Design
- *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* (2011), Production Design
- *Thor: Love and Thunder* (2022), Production Design
- *Batman* (1989), Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/batman.md)
- *Life* (2017), Production Design

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