---
name: "Tony Fanning"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tony-fanning"
fi1m_id: "tony-fanning"
imdb_id: "nm0266840"
tmdb_id: 8794
roles: ["Art direction"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 9
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_over: 9
updated: "2026-10-07T19:23:37.799437+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."
---

# Tony Fanning

## Identity

Tony Fanning

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tony-fanning
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tony-fanning
- **IMDb ID:** nm0266840
- **TMDB ID:** 8794
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8794

Art direction.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Active:** 1994–present
- **Also known as:** Anthony T. Fanning, Anthony Fanning
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 69 (3), 2000s 62 (4), 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 70 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 62 across 9 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 7 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Comedy 4, Crime 3, Thriller 3, Mystery 2, Romance 2
- **Screen time:** 15 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,064m across 7 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266840/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8794

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Better Call Saul*](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md) (84)
- **AMC+:** [*Kevin Can F**K Himself*](https://film.one/tv/kevin-can-f-k-himself.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Tony Fanning is a production designer and art director working in film and television. He studied stage design at the UNC School of the Arts and Yale School of Drama, and designed the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s *Two Trains Running*.

As an art director he contributed to films including *Forrest Gump* (1994), *Spider-Man* (2002), *Ocean’s Twelve* (2004), *Ocean’s Thirteen* (2007), *The Polar Express* (2004), *War of the Worlds* (2005) and *Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2004). He shared a Primetime Emmy Award for art direction on the pilot of *The West Wing* (2000).

As a production designer his credits include *Better Call Saul* (2015–2016), *Five Feet Apart* (2019), *Wish I Was Here* (2014), *Ideal Home* (2018) and the series *The First Lady* (2022). He has received Art Directors Guild Award nominations for his work on *Better Call Saul*.

*Sources: imdb.com, tft.ucla.edu, tonyfanningdesign.com.*

## On Fi1m (9)

- *Kevin Can F**K Himself* (2021), Fi1m 70, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/kevin-can-f-k-himself.md)
- *Better Call Saul* (2015), Fi1m 84, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md)
- *Ocean's Thirteen* (2007), Fi1m 63, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-thirteen.md)
- *Ocean's Twelve* (2004), Fi1m 58, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-twelve.md)
- *What Lies Beneath* (2000), Fi1m 63, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/what-lies-beneath.md)
- *What Women Want* (2000), Fi1m 64, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/what-women-want.md)
- *Amistad* (1997), Fi1m 63, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/amistad.md)
- *Forrest Gump* (1994), Fi1m 66, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/forrest-gump.md)
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), Fi1m 78, Set Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Apples Never Fall* (2024), series, Production Design
- *Kevin Can F**K Himself* (2021), series, Production Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/kevin-can-f-k-himself.md)
- *Five Feet Apart* (2019), Production Design
- *Budding Prospects* (2017), Production Design
- *Better Call Saul* (2015), series, Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md)
- *Wish I Was Here* (2014), Production Design
- *They Die by Dawn* (2013), Production Design
- *Butter* (2012), Production Design
- *Contraband* (2012), Production Design
- *Straw Dogs* (2011), Production Design
- *Brothers* (2009), Production Design
- *Youth in Revolt* (2009), as Officer #2
- *Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay* (2008), Production Design
- *Nancy Drew* (2007), Production Design
- *Ocean's Thirteen* (2007), as Art Direction — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-thirteen.md)
- *Munich* (2005), as Art Direction — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/munich.md)
- *War of the Worlds* (2005), Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/war-of-the-worlds.md)
- *Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2004), as Art Direction
- *Ocean's Twelve* (2004), as Art Direction — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-twelve.md)
- *The Polar Express* (2004), as Art Direction — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-polar-express.md)
- *Intolerable Cruelty* (2003), as Art Direction
- *Spider-Man* (2002), as Art Direction — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man.md)
- *What Women Want* (2000), as Art Direction — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/what-women-want.md)
- *What Lies Beneath* (2000), as Art Direction — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/what-lies-beneath.md)
- *October Sky* (1999), as Art Direction
- *Amistad* (1997), as Art Direction — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/amistad.md)
- *Jingle All the Way* (1996), Supervising Art Director
- *The Indian in the Cupboard* (1995), as Art Direction
- *Quiz Show* (1994), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/quiz-show.md)
- *Forrest Gump* (1994), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/forrest-gump.md)
- *The Hudsucker Proxy* (1994), Set Designer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hudsucker-proxy.md)
- *Trevor* (1994), as Art Direction
- *The Mighty Ducks* (1992), as Art Direction

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