---
name: "Rusty Smith"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rusty-smith"
fi1m_id: "rusty-smith"
imdb_id: "nm0809840"
tmdb_id: 10396
wikidata_id: "Q138964789"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-23T04:11:13.404995+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."
---

# Rusty Smith

## Identity

Rusty Smith

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rusty-smith
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rusty-smith
- **IMDb ID:** nm0809840
- **TMDB ID:** 10396
- **Wikidata ID:** Q138964789
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138964789, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10396

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1999–2017
- **Frequently works with:** [Jay Roach](https://film.one/person/jay-roach.md), [Ben Stiller](https://film.one/person/ben-stiller.md), [Blythe Danner](https://film.one/person/blythe-danner.md), [Jane Rosenthal](https://film.one/person/jane-rosenthal.md), [Jim Herzfeld](https://film.one/person/jim-herzfeld.md), [John Hamburg](https://film.one/person/john-hamburg.md), [Michael McCullers](https://film.one/person/michael-mccullers.md), [Michael York](https://film.one/person/michael-york.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 73 (1), 2000s 66 (4), 2010s 89 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 66 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 5, Crime 2, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,940m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138964789, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10396

## Coming up

- *Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True* (2026-11-28), Production Design

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Get Out*](https://film.one/film/get-out.md) (89)

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

## Biography

Rusty Smith is a production designer whose credits include *Get Out* (2017). He has worked on a range of feature films, with earlier production design credits on *Meet the Parents* (2000), *Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me* (1999), *Elf* (2003), *Meet the Fockers* (2004), *Austin Powers in Goldmember* (2002) and *After* (2019).

His other film work includes *Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween* (2018), *Beastly* (2011) and *Accepted* (2006). Smith has also contributed to television series and received two Primetime Emmy nominations.

*Sources: imdb.com, metacritic.com, oak1.the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Get Out* (2017), Fi1m 89, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/get-out.md)
- *Meet the Fockers* (2004), Fi1m 52, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/meet-the-fockers.md)
- *Elf* (2003), Fi1m 75, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/elf.md)
- *Austin Powers in Goldmember* (2002), Fi1m 58, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/austin-powers-in-goldmember.md)
- *Meet the Parents* (2000), Fi1m 78, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/meet-the-parents.md)
- *Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me* (1999), Fi1m 73, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

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

- *Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True* (2026), Production Design
- *Seekers of Infinite Love* (2026), Production Design
- *NCIS: Origins* (2024), series, Production Design
- *A Christmas Story Christmas* (2022), Production Design
- *Alaska Daily* (2022), series, Production Design
- *The Valet* (2022), Production Design
- *Home Sweet Home Alone* (2021), Production Design
- *Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist* (2020), series, Production Design
- *After* (2019), Production Design
- *Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween* (2018), Production Design
- *Life of the Party* (2018), Production Design
- *Get Out* (2017), Production Design — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/get-out.md)
- *The Boss* (2016), Production Design
- *November Rule* (2015), Production Design
- *The Little Rascals Save the Day* (2014), Production Design
- *Mistresses* (2013), series, Production Design
- *Won't Back Down* (2012), Production Design
- *A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas* (2011), Production Design
- *Soul Surfer* (2011), Production Design
- *Beastly* (2011), Production Design
- *Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore* (2010), Production Design
- *The Pink Panther 2* (2009), Production Design
- *The Jane Austen Book Club* (2007), Production Design
- *Bratz* (2007), Production Design
- *Accepted* (2006), Production Design
- *Meet the Fockers* (2004), Production Design — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/meet-the-fockers.md)
- *Elf* (2003), Production Design — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/elf.md)
- *Agent Cody Banks* (2003), Production Design
- *Serving Sara* (2002), Production Design
- *Austin Powers in Goldmember* (2002), Production Design — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/austin-powers-in-goldmember.md)
- *61** (2001), Production Design
- *Meet the Parents* (2000), Production Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/meet-the-parents.md)
- *The Corndog Man* (1999), Production Design
- *Mystery, Alaska* (1999), Production Design
- *Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me* (1999), Production Design — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me.md)
- *Lost & Found* (1999), Production Design
- *The Beautician and the Beast* (1997), Production Design
- *Tinseltown* (1997), Production Design
- *Dunston Checks In* (1996), Production Design
- *One Night Stand* (1995), Production Design
- *A Friend to Die For* (1994), Production Design
- *Camp Nowhere* (1994), Production Design
- *Full Eclipse* (1993), as Art Direction
- *The Good Son* (1993), as Art Direction
- *The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom* (1993), as Art Direction
- *Diggstown* (1992), as Art Direction
- *Diary of a Hitman* (1991), as Art Direction
- *Women and Wallace* (1990), Scenic Artist
- *Dalton: Code of Vengeance II* (1986), as Art Direction

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