Art

Ben Collins

Ben Collins is a British supervising art director. Born in the United Kingdom, he earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Interior Architecture (Spatial Design) from the University of Salford, graduating in 1997. Collins began his career in the early 2000s as a concept model maker and draughtsperson on major studio features, contributing to productions such as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003), and Troy (2004). He progressed through roles as junior draughtsperson and assistant art director on projects including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), and The Monuments Men (2014). By the 2010s, Collins had advanced to the role of supervising art director and art director on a string of high-profile films. His credits include Zero Dark Thirty (2012), World War Z (2013), Into the Woods (2014), and Spectre (2015), for which he received Art Directors Guild Award nominations for Excellence in Production Design.