# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-dilley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:07:38.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-dilley"
name: "Leslie Dilley"
slug: "leslie-dilley"
description: "Leslie Dilley was a Welsh art director and production designer. During his film career from the 1970s to 2000s, he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction twice for Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), sharing this both times with Norman Reynolds. Dilley received additional Best Art Direction nominations for Alien (1979), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and The Abyss (1989). Apart from art direction, Dilley was a production designer for The Exorcist III (1990), Casper (1995), and Deep Impact (1998)."
tagline: "Production designer (1941—2025)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Cropped_Photo_of_Leslie_Dilley.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1941-01-11"
deathDate: "2025-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.71
  momentum:             6
  historical:           7.009216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226896/"
    handle:    "nm0226896"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dilley"
    title: "Leslie Dilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dilley"
    title: "Leslie Dilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dilley"
    title: "Leslie Dilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dilley"
    title: "Leslie Dilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dilley"
    title: "Leslie Dilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dilley"
    title: "Leslie Dilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Дилли, Лесли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1743733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5059"
    title: "Leslie Dilley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump