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

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on films including '' Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' (2002), ''

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'' (2005) and ''

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'' (2007). He worked independently on '' Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'' (2010). Wood moved to

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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

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. His nomination is shared with

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, and Andrew Jackson.

Awards

* 2015:

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– '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' * 2015: BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects – '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' * 2015: AACTA Award for Best Visual Effects – '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' * 2010: Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature – '' Knowing''

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