---
name: "Robert Bavin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-bavin"
fi1m_id: "robert-bavin"
imdb_id: "nm1143885"
tmdb_id: 1330561
roles: ["Art direction"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-11-01T22:55:39.389327+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."
---

# Robert Bavin

## Identity

Robert Bavin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-bavin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-bavin
- **IMDb ID:** nm1143885
- **TMDB ID:** 1330561
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1143885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1330561

Art direction.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** Rob Bavin
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 49 (1), 2020s 70 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 59 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Horror 2, Science Fiction 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,898m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1143885/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1330561

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Heart Eyes*](https://film.one/film/heart-eyes.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Robert Bavin, also credited as Rob Bavin, is a New Zealand-based production designer and art director. He has worked in the art department for more than 25 years on international productions filmed in New Zealand, progressing through roles including props, standby props and assistant art director before becoming an art director and production designer.

Bavin received an Art Directors Guild award in 2010 as part of the team on *Avatar* (2009) and was nominated again in 2023 for *Avatar: The Way of Water* (2022). His art direction credits include *The Meg* (2018), *Pacific Rim: Uprising* (2018), *30 Days of Night* (2007) and *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016). As production designer he has worked on the series *One of Us Is Lying* (2022) and the film *Heart Eyes* (2025).

*Sources: imdb.com, nzonscreen.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Heart Eyes* (2025), Fi1m 71, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/heart-eyes.md)
- *Avatar: The Way of Water* (2022), Fi1m 68, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/avatar-the-way-of-water.md)
- *The Meg* (2018), Fi1m 49, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-meg.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Heart Eyes* (2025), Production Design — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/heart-eyes.md)
- *Avatar: The Way of Water* (2022), as Art Direction — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/avatar-the-way-of-water.md)
- *The Meg* (2018), as Art Direction — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/the-meg.md)
- *Pacific Rim: Uprising* (2018), as Art Direction — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/pacific-rim-uprising.md)
- *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016), series, as Art Direction
- *Avalon High* (2011), as Art Direction
- *Avatar* (2009), as Art Direction — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/avatar.md)
- *30 Days of Night* (2007), Assistant Art Director
- *Perfect Creature* (2007), as Art Direction
- *The Ferryman* (2007), as Art Direction
- *Sione's Wedding* (2006), as Props

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