Chris Lowe

Chris Lowe is a British production designer and supervising art director. His career in feature filmmaking spans from the mid-1990s to the present, with early credits including art direction roles in *The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain* (1995) and *To Kill a King* (2003), followed by supervising art direction for *The Life and Death of Peter Sellers* (2004) and *The Constant Gardener* (2005).

During the 2000s, Lowe served as supervising art director on high-profile studio films including *Basic Instinct 2* (2006), *The Golden Compass* (2007), *Quantum of Solace* (2008), *The Young Victoria* (2009), and *Harry Brown* (2009). He also worked as a production designer on *Dread* (2009) and as art director on *In Bruges* (2008).

Into the 2010s, Lowe became the supervising art director on multiple James Bond films and other blockbusters: *Captain America: The First Avenger* (2011), *Skyfall* and *Dark Shadows* (both 2012), *Into the Woods* (2014), *Spectre* (2015), *Star Wars: The Last Jedi* (2017), *Dumbo* (2019), and *No Time to Die* (2021). From 2022 onward, he has taken on complete production designer duties on *The Gray Man* (2022), *Meg 2: The Trench* (2023), *Bob Marley: One Love* (2024), and *Venom: The Last Dance* (2024).

Lowe earned significant industry recognition for his contributions. In 2001, he won a British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Production Design for the TV miniseries *Longitude*, shared with Eileen Diss. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2005 for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie for *The Life and Death of Peter Sellers*, alongside Norman Garwood, Lucy Richardson, John Ralph, and Maggie Gray.

Within the Art Directors Guild, Lowe has received multiple honours. He won the Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Award for a contemporary feature film for his work on *No Time to Die* in 2022. He was nominated for the same award for *Dumbo* (fantasy film) in 2020, for *Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi* (fantasy film) in 2018, and for *Spectre* (contemporary film) in 2016.