Victoria Alonso

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Victoria Alonso
Born (1965-12-22) 22 December 1965 (age 58)
La Plata, Argentina
Occupations
  • Film producer
  • studio executive
Years active1996–present
Notable work Marvel Cinematic Universe
SpouseImelda Corcoran
Children1

Victoria Alonso (born 22 December 1965) [1] is an Argentine film producer who formerly served as president of physical and post-production, visual effects, and animation at Marvel Studios.

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Early life and career

Alonso was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. She moved to Seattle at the age of 19 to pursue an acting career. She relocated again to Los Angeles, where she began working in the visual effects industry, [2] including at Digital Domain as a visual effects producer for four years, [3] [4] working on films such as Big Fish (2003), which was nominated for Best Special Visual Effects at the 57th British Academy Film Awards. [2]

Alonso joined Marvel Studios in 2005 as executive vice president of visual effects and post-production, [3] working as a co-producer on Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), [5] and serving as executive producer on every Marvel Studios production since The Avengers (2012), [2] including television shows. [6] She was promoted to executive vice president of production in 2015. [7] [8] In 2021, Alonso was promoted to president of physical and post-production, visual effects, and animation at Marvel Studios. [9]

In 2016, Alonso became the first woman to win the Advanced Imaging Society's Harold Lloyd Award for her achievements in visual effects. [2] [10] [11] In January 2020, she was awarded the Filmmaker Award by the Motion Picture Sound Editors at the 67th Golden Reel Awards. [3] In October 2021, it was announced that Alonso would be the top honoree at Outfest's Visionary Award at the November ceremony at LA's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. [12]

In December 2022, she was named on The Hollywood Reporter 's "Women in Entertainment Power 100". [13]

Firing from Marvel Studios

In 2023, Alonso was fired from her role at Marvel Studios for breach of contract after violating her noncompete clause by serving as a producer on the Amazon Studios film Argentina, 1985 , [14] [15] despite having failed to seek permission to work on the film, and continuing to promote it after being ordered by Disney to cease her involvement with the project. [14]

At the time of her firing, criticism from VFX workers were noted, [15] who had raised complaints of Marvel's "demanding post-production schedules". Alonso was described by some as a "kingmaker", [15] [16] with Chris Lee at Vulture reporting that Alonso was "singularly responsible for Marvel's toxic work environment." [17] [16] However, Alonso was also described as the "epitome of professional" and supportive on set, with Joanna Robinson of The Ringer describing the reports as a "gross mischaracterization" and the opposite of Alonso's work. [15] [18] Disney and Alonso reached a multi-million dollar compensation settlement in April. [19]

Personal life

Alonso is openly gay and is married to Australian actress Imelda Corcoran. The couple has one daughter. [2]

Filmography

Feature films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2000 Sordid Lives Producer [20]
The 6th Day Visual effects producer [2]
2001 Shrek [3]
Cats & Dogs [21]
2003 Darkness Falls [22]
The Core [2]
Big Fish [3]
2004 50 First Dates [2]
2005 Kingdom of Heaven [3]
2008 Iron Man Co-producer
Visual effects producer		 [5]
[22]
2010 Iron Man 2 Co-producer [5]
2011 Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
2012 The Avengers Executive producer [2]
2013 Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ant-Man
2016 Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
2017 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thor: Ragnarok
2018 Black Panther
Avengers: Infinity War
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019 Captain Marvel
Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2021 Black Widow
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Eternals
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Thor: Love and Thunder
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Argentina, 1985 Producer
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Executive producer
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Marvels

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2021 WandaVision Executive producer9 episodes [23]
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier 6 episodes [24]
2021-2023 Loki 12 episodes [25]
2021-present What If...? 18 episodes; renewed for third season [26]
2021 Hawkeye 6 episodes
2022 Moon Knight 6 episodes
Ms. Marvel 6 episodes
2022-2023 I Am Groot 10 episodes
2022 She-Hulk: Attorney at Law 9 episodes
Werewolf by Night TV special
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special TV special
2023 Secret Invasion 6 episodes
2024 Echo 5 episodes
X-Men '97 10 episodes; renewed for a second season
Agatha 9 episodes; post-production
TBD Ironheart 6 episodes; post-production

Accolades

YearFilmAwardCategoryResultRef(s)
2006 Kingdom of Heaven Visual Effects Society Awards Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture (with Wesley Sewell, Tom Wood, Gary Brozenich)Won [27]
2009 Iron Man Visual Effects Society Awards Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature (with Ben Snow, Hal Hickel, John Nelson)Nominated [28]
Best Single Visual Effect of the Year (with Ben Snow, Wayne Billheimer, John Nelson)Nominated
2019 Avengers: Endgame Hollywood Film Awards Hollywood Blockbuster Award (with Kevin Feige)Won [29]

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