Department Heads

A department head is a person who leads, supervises, or heads a specific department (or sub department) within a production - they are also sometimes responsible for hiring others into their department.

For example, the cinematographer or director of photography is the head of the camera and lighting department. Similarly, the sound mixer is the head of the sound department.

Some departments have sub-departments within them and each sub-department may or may not have a department head.

Department heads are very rarely listed in a title's end credit sequence - therefore, similar to Showrunners & Head Writers, listing department heads is a rare exclusion to our policy of:

"Listing all information on IMDb based on a titles end credit sequence."

Please follow the below guidelines to make sure the information is added correctly:

• The person must always have another credit on this title within the same category.
  
  
• You cannot add "(department head)" attributes to thanks, actor/actress, director and producer departments.
  
  
• Department heads are not always credited as such on-screen, so please don't add it as a role with the "(uncredited)" attribute.
  
  
• You don’t need to contribute a new (department head) credit if the person already has a similar credit but with a slightly different attribute e.g. head of department.
  
  
• The department head credits must not be contributed for titles released before the year 2000.
  
  
• You should add a new credit for department head, instead of correcting an existing listing.

The department head designation is contributed in the Role field of a new credit submission: