Christopher Townsend

Christopher Townsend
Occupation	visual effects supervisor
Years active	1995-present

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 and 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,^[1] 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.

References[]

^ "The 86th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Archived from the original on October 1, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2014.

External links[]

Christopher Townsend at IMDb

Saturn Award for Best Special Effects

Marcel Vercoutere (1972)
Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt (1973)
Douglas Knapp, Bill Taylor, John Carpenter, and Dan O'Bannon (1974/75)
L. B. Abbott (1976)
John Dykstra and John Stears (1977)
Colin Chilvers (1978)
Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, and Richard Yuricich (1979)
Brian Johnson and Richard Edlund (1980)
Richard Edlund (1981)
Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren (1982)
Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, and Ken Ralston (1983)
Chris Walas (1984)
Kevin Pike (1985)
Stan Winston, Robert Skotak and Dennis Skotak (1986)
Peter Kuran, Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, and Rocco Gioffre (1987)
George Gibbs, Ken Ralston, and Richard Williams (1988)
Ken Ralston (1989/90)
Stan Winston (1991)
Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992)
Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993)
John Bruno (1994)
Stan Parks (1995)
Volker Engel, Clay Pinney, Douglas Smith, and Joe Viskocil (1996)
Phil Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., John Richardson (1997)
Volker Engel, Patrick Tatopoulos, Karen E. Goulekas, and Clay Pinney (1998)
Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren, and Scott Squires (1999)
Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, and Stan Parks (2000)
Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri (2001)
Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll, and Ben Snow (2002)
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003)
John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004)
Joe Letteri, Richard Taylor, Christian Rivers, and Brian Van't Hul (2005)
John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl, and John Frazier (2007)
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, and Paul J. Franklin (2008)
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Paul J. Franklin, and Peter Bebb (2010)
Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett (2011)
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick (2012)
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013)
Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014)
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould (2015)
John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould (2016)
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick (2017)
Dan DeLeeuw, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl, and Dan Sudick (2018/2019)
Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, and Dominic Tuohy (2019/2020)

Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.

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