Paul Franklin (visual effects supervisor)

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Paul J. Franklin is an English visual effects supervisor who has worked with visual effects since the 1990s. Franklin won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for Inception (2010), and won a second Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Interstellar (2014). He shared the wins with Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb, and Chris Corbould. Franklin has also been nominated for an Academy Award for The Dark Knight (2008). [1] He was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). [2]

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Background

Franklin was born in Cheshire, England. [3] He was educated at Sandbach School in Cheshire from 1977 to 1984. [4] He attended the South Cheshire College (Crewe), part of the former Mid Cheshire College in Northwich, for a year, and then gained a place at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, where he was a member of St John's College, to study fine art. [5] At Oxford he had his first experience of filmmaking, frequently collaborating with director Ben Hopkins, and began to experiment with the emerging new medium of computer animation. He graduated in 1989. [6] He worked two jobs as a videotape editor and then began a career in computer graphics and animation at Psygnosis (now Studio Liverpool) in the early 1990s. [7] After several years at the Moving Picture Company in London he and a group of colleagues founded the visual effects company Double Negative in 1998 with financing from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. He headed the 3D effects for Double Negative's first film Pitch Black (2000). [7]

Franklin was an undergraduate external examiner at Bournemouth University for 4 or 5 years and also gave visiting practitioner lectures at BU's Media School. [8] In 2012, he received an honorary degree from Bournemouth. [9]

Filmography

Franklin has been visual effects supervisor for the following films: [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Academy Awards Database". oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Search Results". bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  3. ↑ Reed, Becky (17 September 2010). "Interview: Inception VFX Supervisor Paul Franklin". DIY . Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  4. ↑ UPDATED Former Students News March 2015 , retrieved 27 June 2015
  5. ↑ "Ruskin Alumni BAFTA + 2015 Oscar Winner". www.ruskin.ox.ac.uk. Accessed 30 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Paul Franklin Citation" (PDF). bournemouth.ac.uk. Bournemouth University . Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  7. 1 2 Frazer, Bryant (3 February 2011). "VFX Supervisor Paul Franklin Talks Ingenuity and Inception". Studio Daily. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Staff (2 March 2011). "Oscar & BAFTA win for Paul Franklin". media.bournemouth.ac.uk. Bournemouth University. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Staff (9 November 2012). "Visual effects supervisor says Bournemouth University (BU) Honorary Doctorate 'more special' than winning an Oscar". bournemouth.ac.uk. Bournemouth University . Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Paul Franklin". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute . Retrieved 13 November 2020.
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