Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 91st Academy Awards, and we’re thrilled to have contributed to six of them.
All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 5, 2019. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
ILM contributed to:
Ant-Man and the Wasp – ILM VFX Supervisor, Russell Earl
Avengers: Infinity War – ILM VFX Supervisor, Russell Earl
Black Panther – ILM VFX Supervisor, Craig Hammack
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Overall VFX Supervisor, David Vickery
Ready Player One – Overall VFX Supervisor, Roger Guyett
Solo: A Star Wars Story – Overall VFX Supervisor, Rob Bredow
Other Semi-finalists:
Christopher Robin
First Man”
Mary Poppins Returns
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Congratulations to all the semi-finalists!
Join SVP, Executive Creative Director and Head of ILM, Rob Bredow for his keynote address from this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver. Bredow shares his unique understanding of how media and technological innovation can join forces to tell great stories and create groundbreaking experiences.
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Recently, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored White and three colleagues with a Technical Achievement Award for his original design of ILM’s procedural rigging system, Block Party. He is also nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects for his contribution to Kong: Skull Island.
Jeff White joined Industrial Light & Magic in 2002 as a Creature Technical Director, working on a variety of films including the Academy Award-winning Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, as well as War of the Worlds and Star Wars: Episode III “Revenge of the Sith”.
In 2012, White served as the ILM Visual Effects Supervisor on Marvel’s The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon and earned both an Academy Award nomination and BAFTA nomination for his visual effects work. He also received the Hollywood Film Award for visual effects for the work. White also served as a Visual Effects Supervisor on Duncan Jones’ 2016 sci-fi epic, Warcraft, based on the well-known video game World of Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment.
“Jeff has truly done it all,” noted Randal Shore, Executive-in-Charge in Vancouver. “He is an extremely talented visual effects supervisor possessing both deep technical knowledge and a keen artistic eye, making him an ideal person to join our executive team and help lead our growing studio.”
Lynwen Brennan, GM of Lucasfilm, added, “I have worked with Jeff for many years now and have always been in awe of his combination of creative, technical and leadership skills. He exudes a confidence and grace under pressure that is quite unique and has made him one of most successful Visual Effects Supervisors. I am excited for Jeff to bring all those skills to our Vancouver studio and help lead it from strength to strength.”
“I’m thrilled to join ILM Vancouver and to work with Randal and the executive team as we continue to grow the studio and expand our client offerings,” explained White.
“Having worked with many of the artists here in Vancouver on a number of films including Kong: Skull Island, I know firsthand the amazing artistic and technical talent we have to offer and I couldn’t be more excited to share what I know and collaborate with them on all manner of projects.”
Industrial Light & Magic’s Vancouver studio is leading the charge for the company on Luc Besson’s epic science fiction film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The film, based on the french graphic novel series “Valerian and Laureline.” This film marks the first to be spearheaded by the Vancouver studio and the crew could not be more excited. ILM Visual Effects Supervisor, Philippe Rebours and ILM Visual Effects Producer David Fox are heading up the effort which consists primarily of two major sequences in the film. This marks the second collaboration between ILM and Luc Besson, the first being the 2014 juggernaut Lucy.
“When I did ‘The Fifth Element’ I hired the designer from ‘Valerian’ and I worked with him for six months and he said, ‘Why are you doing this stupid “Fifth Element” movie? When are you going to do “Valerian”?’ And I said I like it but you can’t do it, it’s impossible.”
Luc Besson, 3/29/2017
With modern visual effects, anything is possible and visionary filmmakers like Besson who started writing a Valerian script 10 years ago, just in case, are now able to bring these unique stories to the screen and audiences everywhere.
Opening on July 21 through STX Entertainment, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” follows Valerian (played by Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) as they go in search of the evil forces that are trying to destroy Alpha, the peaceful home of species from a thousand planets.
