Nick Williams is a production designer working in film and television drama based Auckland, New Zealand. Nick won the 2025 NZSA award for Best Production Design in a film on The Convert - An epic action drama directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Guy Pierce. Nick received a 2025 NZSA nomination for Best Production design in a television series for The Gone. He received both an Emmy and AACTA nomination for Best Production Design for his work on The New Legends of Monkey and has been twice nominated for the NZTV awards for his work on Black Hands and The Bad Seed.
Nick’s recent work includes Mārama a Maori gothic horror set in Victorian-era Yorkshire, the story follows a young Māori woman who is summoned from Aotearoa New Zealand to England, where she uncovers the devastating truth of her colonial heritage. Mārama has been selected as New Zealand’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Oscars. Mārama won Best Art Direction at the 2026 Fantaspoa International Film Festival in Brasil.
Prior to production design Nick worked as an art director both in New Zealand and the UK where he worked on some of the UK’s premier drama and comedy shows including the first series of the critically acclaimed BBC Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
Nick is an extremely hands on production designer who leads a highly motivated and capable art department while understanding the needs and requirements of other departments and HOD’s. He is just as at home working on large studio set builds or smaller location shoots with less resources.