Grant Major

Personal Info

Know For

Art

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-01-01 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand

Grant Major

Biography

Grant Major (born 1955) is a production designer from New Zealand who is most famous for his work on The Lord of the Rings films. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Major's early exposure to production design began when he joined an art school in Auckland after graduating. Following this, he got a job as an assistant set designer at the local television station. Description above from the Wikipedia article Grant Major, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

2005

King Kong

as Production Design

2011

Green Lantern

as Production Design

2014

The Dead Lands

as Production Design

1994

Heavenly Creatures

as Production Design

2021

The Power of the Dog

as Production Design

2006

Dead Letters

as Production Design

2012

Secret Garden

as Art Direction

2012

Emperor

as Production Design

2008

The Ruins

as Production Design

1993

Jack Be Nimble

as Production Design

2012

Mr. Pip

as Production Design

1990

An Angel at My Table

as Production Design

1996

The Frighteners

as Production Design

1994

A Game With No Rules

as Production Design

2016

X-Men: Apocalypse

as Production Design

2013

Beyond The Edge

as Production Design

2025

A Minecraft Movie

as Production Design

2009

The Vintner's Luck

as Production Design

2003

Whale Rider

as Production Design

2018

The Meg

as Production Design

2013

Walking with Dinosaurs

as Production Design

2020

Mulan

as Production Design

1997

Aberration

as Production Design

1989

Kitchen Sink

as Art Direction

1998

Memory & Desire

as Production Design

1997

The Ugly

as Production Design

1997

A Woman's Heart

as Production Design

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