---
name: "Sarah Knowles"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sarah-knowles"
fi1m_id: "sarah-knowles"
imdb_id: "nm0461556"
tmdb_id: 9270
wikidata_id: "Q25114426"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-23T11:29:21.225346+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."
---

# Sarah Knowles

## Identity

Sarah Knowles

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sarah-knowles
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sarah-knowles
- **IMDb ID:** nm0461556
- **TMDB ID:** 9270
- **Wikidata ID:** Q25114426
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25114426, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461556/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9270

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1990–2018
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 76 (2), 2000s 78 (2), 2010s 72 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 64 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 2, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $532m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25114426, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461556/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9270

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*You*](https://film.one/tv/you.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Sarah Knowles is a production designer and art director. She began her career in the late 1980s as a set decorator and art department assistant, progressing to art director on films including *Gattaca* (1997) and *Catch Me If You Can* (2002).

Knowles has served as production designer on *The Notebook* (2004), *Dan in Real Life* (2007), *Fatherhood* (2021) and the series *You* (2018). She has received one Primetime Emmy Award among two wins and four nominations overall. Her father is the architect Edward F. Knowles.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *You* (2018), Fi1m 72, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)
- *The Notebook* (2004), Fi1m 74, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-notebook.md)
- *Catch Me If You Can* (2002), Fi1m 83, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/catch-me-if-you-can.md)
- *Gattaca* (1997), Fi1m 80, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/gattaca.md)
- *Awakenings* (1990), Fi1m 73, Art Department Assistant — [page](https://film.one/film/awakenings.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *The Perfect Couple* (2024), series, Production Design
- *Fatherhood* (2021), Production Design
- *Drunk Parents* (2019), Production Design
- *You* (2018), series, Production Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)
- *The Tick* (2016), series, Production Design
- *Madam Secretary* (2014), series, Production Design
- *Mozart in the Jungle* (2014), series, Production Design
- *Clear History* (2013), Production Design
- *Admission* (2013), Production Design
- *Being Flynn* (2012), Production Design
- *Arthur* (2011), Production Design
- *Dan in Real Life* (2007), Production Design
- *Around the Bend* (2004), Production Design
- *The Notebook* (2004), Production Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-notebook.md)
- *Catch Me If You Can* (2002), as Art Direction — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/catch-me-if-you-can.md)
- *S1m0ne* (2002), as Art Direction
- *The Glass House* (2001), as Art Direction
- *Flawless* (1999), as Art Direction
- *The Astronaut's Wife* (1999), as Art Direction
- *Gattaca* (1997), as Art Direction — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/gattaca.md)
- *Money Train* (1995), as Art Direction
- *Terminal Velocity* (1994), as Art Direction
- *Demolition Man* (1993), Assistant Art Director
- *The Good Son* (1993), Assistant Art Director
- *Calendar Girl* (1993), as Art Direction
- *Dead Boyz Can't Fly* (1992), Production Design
- *Awakenings* (1990), Art Department Assistant — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/awakenings.md)

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