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Dan Oliver is an Australian special effects supervisor. He worked on various feature films, including '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' (2009), ''The Great Gatsby'' (2013), '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' (2015) and ''Gods of Egypt'' (2016) Dan Oliver was nominated at the 88th Academy Awards for his work on the film ''Mad Max: Fury Road'' in the category of Best Visual Effects. His nomination was shared with Andrew Jackson, Andy Williams and Tom Wood. He was also nominated at the 94th Academy Awards for his work on the film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings''. His nomination was shared with Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell Joseph Carl Firrantello (December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986), known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily performed as a saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name o ... and Sean Noel Walker. References External links * Living people Special effects people Year of ...
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Special Effect
Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world. Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of mechanical effects and optical effects. With the emergence of digital film-making a distinction between special effects and visual effects has grown, with the latter referring to digital post-production and optical effects, while "special effects" refers to mechanical effects. Mechanical effects (also called practical or physical effects) are usually accomplished during the live-action shooting. This includes the use of mechanized props, scenery, scale models, animatronics, pyrotechnics and atmospheric effects: creating physical wind, rain, fog, snow, clouds, making a car appear to drive by itself and blowing up a building, etc. Mechanical effects are also often inco ...
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Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches. As of April 2020, the organization was estimated to consist of around 9,921 motion picture professionals. The Academy is an international organization and membership is open to qualified filmmakers around the world. The Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, now officially and popularly known as "The Oscars". In addition, the Academy holds the Governors Awards annually for lifetime achievement in film; presents Scientific and Technical Awards annually; gives Student Academy Awards annually to filmmakers at the undergraduate and graduate level; ...
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Special Effects People
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Sean Noel Walker
Sean Noel Walker is a New Zealand visual effects artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings''. Selected filmography * ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' (2021; co-nominated with Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell and Dan Oliver Dan Oliver is an Australian special effects supervisor. He worked on various feature films, including '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' (2009), ''The Great Gatsby'' (2013), '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' (2015) and ''Gods of Egypt'' (2016) Dan Oliver was ...) References External links * Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Visual effects artists Visual effects supervisors {{US-film-bio-stub ...
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Joe Farrell (visual Effects Artist)
Joe Farrell is an Australian visual effects artist. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Visual Effects for the films ''Hereafter'' and ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings''. Selected filmography * ''Hereafter'' (2010; co-nominated with Michael Owens, Bryan Grill and Stephan Trojansky) * ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' (2021; co-nominated with Christopher Townsend, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver) * ''Werewolf by Night The Werewolf by Night (usually referred to by other characters simply as the Werewolf) is the name applied to two fictional characters who are werewolves appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first incarnation of We ...'' (2022) References External links * Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Visual effects artists Visual effects supervisors {{Australia-film-bio-stub ...
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Christopher Townsend
Christopher Townsend is a visual effects supervisor. He has worked in the visual effects industry for over 20 years. For over a decade, he was an artist and supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, and in 2007 became a freelance visual effects supervisor. He worked on ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'', the first ever stereoscopic motion picture shot and released digitally, '' The Wolverine'', ''Ninja Assassin'', '' Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'' and '' Captain America: The First Avenger''. He was nominated for a BAFTA and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on ''Iron Man 3'', oversaw nearly 3000 shots on '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'' and was the overall supervisor for ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'' as well as Captain Marvel. In 2015 he was given an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree by his alma mater, Coventry University , mottoeng = By Art and Industry , established = , type = Public , endowment = £28 million (2015) , ...
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Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings
''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Shang-Chi. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 25th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, from a screenplay he wrote with Dave Callaham and Andrew Lanham, and stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi alongside Awkwafina, Meng'er Zhang, Fala Chen, Florian Munteanu, Benedict Wong, Yuen Wah, Michelle Yeoh, Ben Kingsley, and Tony Leung. In the film, Shang-Chi is forced to confront his past when his father Wenwu (Leung), the leader of the Ten Rings organization, draws Shang-Chi and his sister Xialing (Zhang) into a search for a mythical village. A film based on Shang-Chi entered development in 2001, but work did not begin in earnest until December 2018 when Callaham was hired. Cretton joined in March 2019, with the project fast-tracked as Marvel ...
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94th Academy Awards
The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles. The awards were scheduled after its usual late February date to avoid conflicting with both the 2022 Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LVI, with the latter being held in nearby Inglewood, California, Inglewood, California. During the gala, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories honoring films released from March 1 to December 31, 2021. The ceremony, televised in the United States by American Broadcasting Company, ABC, was produced by Will Packer and Shayla Cowan and was directed by Glenn Weiss. Actresses Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes hosted the show for the first time. Two days earlier, in an event held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Ovation Hollywood complex in Hollywood, the Academy held its 12th annual Governors Award ...
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Tom Wood (visual Effects)
Tom Wood is an English visual effects supervisor. Wood worked at Cinesite in London, where he worked on various feature films, including ''Event Horizon'' (1997) and ''Lost in Space'' (1998). He then worked at MPC on films including ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' (2002), '' Kingdom of Heaven'' (2005) and '' Sunshine'' (2007). He worked independently on '' Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'' (2010). Wood moved to Australia in 2012 to head up the VFX work on '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' with Iloura. He is nominated at the 88th Academy Awards for this work in the category for Best Visual Effects. His nomination is shared with Andy Williams, Dan Oliver, and Andrew Jackson. Awards * 2015: Academy Award for Best Visual Effects – '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' * 2015: BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for each year. This award is for special effects and visual effects and rec ...
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Wolverine
The wolverine () (also spelled wolverene), ''Gulo gulo'' (''Gulo'' is Latin for " glutton"), also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, or quickhatch (from East Cree, ''kwiihkwahaacheew''), is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae. It is a muscular carnivore and a solitary animal. The wolverine has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself. The wolverine is found primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern Hemisphere, with the greatest numbers in Northern Canada, the U.S. state of Alaska, the mainland Nordic countries of Europe, and throughout western Russia and Siberia. Its population has steadily declined since the 19th century owing to trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation. The wolverine is now essentially absent from the southern end of its European range. Taxonomy Ge ...
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