Nigel Churcher

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Nigel Churcher is a Canadian film art director. He is most noted for his work on the 2014 film Pompeii , for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 with Paul Denham Austerberry. [1]

He was subsequently nominated in the same category at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, for his work on the film The Exchange . [2]

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