Stuart Craig

“You have to be pretty stubborn in this job. You’re forced into compromising situations all the time. You have to be really tough and resilient, hold your position against the real world, against circumstantial things, locations you can’t get, things you can’t afford, conflicting ideas and the doubts of others, whatever it might be. You have to hold on to your idea and hold your ground.”

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Born in Norwich, Norfolk, UK in 1942, three-time Academy Award winner Stuart Craig has designed some of modern cinema’s most iconic images. For a decade, he was the clear creative line through all eight Harry Potter films, even as the directors ...

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