Roger Christian (born 25 February 1944) is an English set decorator, production designer and feature film director. He won an Academy Award for his work on the original Star Wars and was Oscar-nominated for his work on Alien. Christian directed the second unit on both Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as well as feature films including The Sender and Nostradamus. He also directed the 2000 film Battlefield Earth which is regarded as one of the worst films ever made.

Filmography

• 2025Short Sharp Shocks Volume 4 — Director
• 2016Joseph and Mary — Director
• 201313 Eerie — Executive Producer
• 2013Dangerous Intuition — Director
• 2013Prisoners of the Sun — Director
• 2013Stranded — Director, Writer
• 2012Riddle of the Black Cat — Producer
• 2006American Daylight — Director
• 2004Bandido — Director, Producer, Production Design
• 2000Battlefield Earth — Director
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure — Second Unit Director
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Second Unit Director
• 1997Masterminds — Director
• 1996Underworld — Director
• 1995The Final Cut — Director
• 1994Nostradamus — Director, Story
• 1984Lorca and the Outlaws — Director, Writer
• 1983Return of the Jedi — Second Unit Director
• 1982The Sender — Director
• 1981The Dollar Bottom — Director
• 1980Black Angel — Director, Writer
• 1979Alien — Art Direction
• 1979Life of Brian — Art Direction
• 1977Star Wars — Set Decoration
• 1977The Last Remake of Beau Geste — Set Decoration
• 1974Akenfield — Art Direction
• 1970And Soon the Darkness — Assistant Art Director
• The Sword of Thyrus — Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2025Alien: Terror in Space — Self - Production Designer
• 2019Memory: The Origins of Alien — Self
• 2017The Galaxy Britain Built: The British Force Behind Star Wars — Himself
• 2003The Beast Within: Making Alien — Self