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Paul J. Franklin

Overview

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). He was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).

Franklin was born in Cheshire, England. He was educated at Sandbach School in Cheshire from 1977 to 1984. He attended 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. 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. 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. 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).

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. In 2012, he received an honorary degree from Bournemouth.

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Known for

Acting

2015 Inside 'Interstellar' Actor Self - VFX Supervisor 58
Average
2014 The Science of Interstellar Actor Self 59
Average
2012 Ending the Knight Actor Self 59
Average
2002 The Spider-Man Story Actor Self N/A
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Directing

2022 Fireworks Directing Director 58
Average
Hunting Lila Directing Director N/A
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Crew

2001 Enemy at the Gates Crew Sequence Supervisor 72
Good

Visual Effects

2025 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor N/A
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2018 Venom Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 67
Fair
2014 Interstellar Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 84
Very good
2012 The Dark Knight Rises Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 77
Good
2010 Inception Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 83
Very good
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 76
Good
2008 The Dark Knight Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 84
Very good
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 76
Good
2001 Revelation Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor 58
Average