---
name: "Phil Sims"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/phil-sims"
fi1m_id: "phil-sims"
imdb_id: "nm1792694"
tmdb_id: 1334420
wikidata_id: "Q43137438"
roles: ["Art direction"]
born: "1 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-05T05:38:38.027665+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."
---

# Phil Sims

## Identity

Phil Sims

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/phil-sims
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** phil-sims
- **IMDb ID:** nm1792694
- **TMDB ID:** 1334420
- **Wikidata ID:** Q43137438
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43137438, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1792694/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1334420

Art direction. Born 1 January 1940 in Richmond.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Born:** 1 January 1940, Richmond
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 56 (2), 2010s 66 (2), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 65 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 2, Action 1, Comedy 1, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,311m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43137438, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1792694/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1334420

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Black Mirror*](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Phil Sims is a British production designer and art director. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with a BA Hons in Theatre Design and began his career in theatre, where he was a Linbury Prize finalist and designed the play Marisol at Harrogate Theatre.

He has worked in film and television for over twenty years. Sims received production design credits on the Black Mirror episode 'USS Callister' (2017) and on Doctor Who (2023–2025). He has served as supervising art director or senior art director on films including Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

His awards include an Art Directors Guild Award for excellence in production design for 'USS Callister' (2018) and a British Film Designers Guild Award for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2024). He was also nominated for a BAFTA Television Craft Award for Black Mirror.

*Sources: art-department.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023), Fi1m 74, Supervising Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md)
- *Dark Shadows* (2012), Fi1m 50, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/dark-shadows.md)
- *Black Mirror* (2011), Fi1m 81, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian* (2008), Fi1m 58, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian.md)
- *Elizabeth: The Golden Age* (2007), Fi1m 54, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/elizabeth-the-golden-age.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War* (2025), Production Design
- *Doctor Who* (2024), series, Production Design
- *Tales of the Tardis* (2023), series, Production Design
- *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md)
- *Mission: Impossible - Fallout* (2018), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-fallout.md)
- *Star Wars: The Last Jedi* (2017), as Art Direction — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-last-jedi.md)
- *Inferno* (2016), Supervising Art Director
- *The Martian* (2015), as Art Direction — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-martian.md)
- *Avengers: Age of Ultron* (2015), as Art Direction — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-age-of-ultron.md)
- *Guardians of the Galaxy* (2014), Visual Effects Art Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/guardians-of-the-galaxy.md)
- *Dark Shadows* (2012), as Art Direction — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/dark-shadows.md)
- *Black Mirror* (2011), series, Production Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *Captain America: The First Avenger* (2011), as Art Direction — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/captain-america-the-first-avenger.md)
- *Angels & Demons* (2009), Visual Effects Art Director — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/angels-and-demons.md)
- *The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian* (2008), as Art Direction — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian.md)
- *Elizabeth: The Golden Age* (2007), as Art Direction — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/elizabeth-the-golden-age.md)
- *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* (2005), as Art Direction

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