John Box

John Allan Hyatt Box OBE (27 January 1920 – 7 March 2005) was a British film production designer and art director.

Throughout his career he gained a reputation for recreating exotic locations in rather more mundane surroundings; he once created a walled Chinese city in Snowdonia.

His first big break came when director Mark Robson asked him to work on the period film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1957), which starred Ingrid Bergman.

After this Box worked on Carol Reed's adaptation of Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1959) and Richard Quine's The World of Suzie Wong (1960).

He won an Oscar for Oliver!, a feat he repeated in his next film three years later, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), which provided Box with his final Academy Award for his detailed reproduction of pre-revolution Russia.