Owen Paterson (production designer)

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Owen Paterson is an Australian production designer, who was chiefly responsible for the design and look of The Matrix series of movies. [1] He grew up in Western Australia, and now resides in Sydney. [2] Following The Matrix, his collaboration with Lana and Lilly Wachowski continued with the films V for Vendetta [3] and Speed Racer . [4]

Prior to working on The Matrix , Paterson had worked on Australian films such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with director Stephan Elliott (for which he won an AFI Award) [5] and returned to work with Elliott on Welcome to Woop Woop . [6]

Paterson worked on the 2014 version of Godzilla with director Gareth Edwards. [7] He returned to the franchise on Godzilla vs. Kong in 2021. [8]

In 2015, Paterson was the production designer for Marvel Studios' Captain America: Civil War , and worked for eleven months on the film in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Berlin. After that film's premiere, he called for the Australian government to institute a formal system of film production incentives to attract more big-budget international productions to film in Australia. [9]

Paterson was interviewed in 2008 about his work on creating digital worlds for The Matrix and Speed Racer as part of a short film project that was part of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's long-running Virtual Worlds exhibition. [10] In 2014, he was one of five film designers interviewed for the documentary series Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction, which aired on BBC Two. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Hanson, Matt (2005). Building sci-fi moviescapes : the science behind the fiction. East Sussex, England: Rotovision. ISBN   9780240807720.
  2. ↑ "APDG Melbourne Event: Designing Gods of Egypt with Owen Paterson". FilmInk. Australian Production Designers Guild. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Lamm, Spencer; Bray, Sharon (2006). V for Vendetta: From Script to Film. Rizzoli International Publications.
  4. ↑ "Speed Racer Review". SBS Movies. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "1994 AACTA Awards". Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts.
  6. ↑ Free, Erin (18 November 2019). "Rude, Crude And F&*%In' Lewd: The Making Of Welcome To Woop Woop". FilmInk. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  7. ↑ Vaz, Mark Cotta (2014). Godzilla: The Art of Destruction. Insight Editions. ISBN   978-1608873449.
  8. ↑ Goldberg, Matt (22 February 2021). "'Godzilla vs. Kong': 51 Things We Learned While Visiting the Set of the MonsterVerse's Epic Smackdown". Collider. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  9. ↑ Maddox, Garry (27 April 2016). "Captain America production designer urges Australia to flash cash at Hollywood". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  10. ↑ Australian Centre for the Moving Image. "Setting the scene designer interviews: Owen Paterson". Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "BBC Two - Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction - Owen Paterson". BBC. Retrieved 3 November 2022.

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