David Best

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Art Direction:
2015  Hyena Road
2021  The Ice Road

Assistant Art Director:
2013  Pacific Rim
2014  Pompeii
2015  Hyena Road
2017  The Shape of Water
2018  A Simple Favor
2021  The Ice Road

Director:
2005  Ice Breaker
2013  Pacific Rim
2014  Pompeii
2015  Hyena Road
2017  The Shape of Water
2018  A Simple Favor
2021  The Ice Road

First Assistant Art Direction:
2005  Ice Breaker
2013  Pacific Rim
2014  Pompeii
2015  Crimson Peak
2015  Hyena Road
2017  The Shape of Water
2018  A Simple Favor
2021  The Ice Road

Graphic Designer:
2003  Wrong Turn
2004  Dawn of the Dead
2005  Dark Water
2005  Ice Breaker
2006  16 Blocks
2006  Zoom
2010  Devil
2010  RED
2013  Pacific Rim
2014  Pompeii
2015  Crimson Peak
2015  Hyena Road
2017  Molly's Game
2017  The Shape of Water
2018  A Simple Favor
2019  It Chapter Two
2021  The Ice Road

Art Direction:
2024  Cross

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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.