Ida Random is an Academy Award™ nominated production designer with a career spanning 42 years and over 30 films. Some of the projects she worked on include highly acclaimed films like Silverado, On Golden Pond, Rain Man, The Big Chill, The Fast and the Furious, Hoffa, Along Came A Spider, Throw Momma from the Train and the remake of Roots TV mini-series, just to name a few.

Ms. Random has worked with Hollywood directors like Brian DePalma, James Foley and Danny DeVito and actors of the caliber of Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nickolson, Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Costner.

Born in Scotland, Ida spent some of her formative years in the African Continent, Ireland, Brussels and Canada, before moving to California to study art and design and start her career in film as an art director.

Painting since she was a teenager and still actively producing incredible works of art, Ida draws inspiration from her work in the film industry and her experiences living all over the world as a young woman. “When designing a film”, she says, “we are making a painting”.

Her prolific collection of over 120 paintings include themes like birds/nature, landscapes, portraits and her best-selling “Bowls” and “Native-American Deities”.

Kevin Costner and producer Mark Gordon (Grey’s Anatomy / Saving Private Ryan) are some of the high-profile owners of Ida’s work.

Stats and Other FactS

• Nominated for an Academy Award™ - The Oscars: Rain Man – Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise

• Worked with Larry Katson, writer of Raiders of the Lost ark and Silverado

• Worked with Director Brian de Palma

• Worked with Director Danny DeVito on Throw Momma From the Train and War Of the Roses

Art Department Credits

•  1981: On Golden Pond (assistant art director)

•  1981: True Confessions (assistant art director)

•  1980: Urban Cowboy (assistant art director)

•  1979: The Frisco Kid (assistant art director)