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François Audouy is a French-American production designer known for his vivid, story-driven worlds and inventive approaches to historical and contemporary settings. Over the course of three decades, he has established a reputation as a thoughtful collaborator and visual storyteller whose work seamlessly bridges history, architecture, and cinema.

Audouy most recently reunited with director James Mangold on A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. The film, nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, extends a creative partnership that also includes Ford v Ferrari, The Wolverine, and Logan.

His work spans genres and scales—Ben Affleck’s character-driven drama Air, Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the period fantasy films Dracula Untold and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

In television, Audouy recently wrapped work on the third season of HBO’s Euphoria for creator-director Sam Levinson. He also designed the expansive, alternate-timeline White House for Shondaland/Netflix’s limited series The Residence, which earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Production Design.

Beyond long-format storytelling, Audouy has created striking visuals for music videos by Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Coldplay, P!nk, Camila Cabello and Dua Lipa. His work on Styles’s “Falling” earned the first-ever Art Directors Guild Award bestowed to a music video.

His work has taken him to ten countries, from European castles to American backlots, always guided by the curiosity of a traveler and the eye of a storyteller. A lifelong movie lover who once sketched scenes from his favorite films as a child, Audouy continues to explore how design can deepen emotion, shape narrative, and transport audiences into the worlds of film.

Over the course of his career, he has received five ADG Awards and numerous additional nominations, recognition he credits to the collaborative spirit that drives every project.

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