Paul Denham Austerberry

Paul Austerberry (born 1966) is a Canadian film and television production designer. For his set design in the 2017 film The Shape of Water he won an Academy Award^[1][2] and a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design^[3] with set decorators Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin.^[4][5] In the 2013 film Pompeii, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 with Nigel Churcher.^[6]

Paul Austerberry was born in 1966 to parents Peter and Deanna Austerberry.^[7] Though the City of Toronto is his birthplace, Northern Ontario's Sault Ste. Marie waterfront city is the place where Paul Austerberry, an only child, was raised by his British-born father and Filipina mother.^[8]

Films Austerberry has worked on include:^[9]

• Extreme Measures (1996)
• Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)
• Harriet the Spy (1996)
• The Real Blonde (1997)
• Half Baked (1998)
• The Mighty (1998)
• The Corruptor (1999)
• X-Men (2000)

• Six Gestures (1997)
• Mercy (2000)
• Exit Wounds (2001)
• Men With Brooms (2002)
• The Tuxedo (2002)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• Highwaymen (2004)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Take the Lead (2006)
• 30 Days of Night (2007)
• Death Race (2008)
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
• The Three Musketeers (2011)
• Deadfall (2012)
• Pompeii (2014)
• Len and Company (2015)
• Shut In (2016)
• The Shape of Water (2017)^[10]
• It Chapter Two (2019)
• The Flash (2023)^[11]
• The Color Purple (2023)^[12]

• Paul Austerberry at IMDb