Sara Bennett
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| Occupation | Visual effects artist |
| Years active | 1998–present |
Sara Bennett is an Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor and co-founder of Milk - a visual effects studio headquartered in London. Bennett was born in Worcestershire[1] in the West of England.
Career
From a young age, Sara has been fascinated by the visual effects industry and was particularly inspired by Horror Movies.[2] In a recent Women in VFX interview,[3] she reflects on her journey; from Runner, progressing up the ranks via the compositing route to leadership roles and is now Chief Creative Officer/VFX Supervisor at Milk, a VFX studio she co-founded in 2013[4] based in London.
Bennett's first film credit[5] was on the 1998 film Babe: Pig in the City where she worked in digital preparation at Mill Film.
Sara is best known for her work on
(2015).She became the second ever female VFX Oscar winner[6] when she received a 2016 Academy Award for the best visual effects in Alex Garland’s feature Ex-Machina, along with Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington. Sara also received a 2016 BAFTA Film Award nomination for Ex-Machina.[7]
Sara has also collaborated with Bythewood on her previous project for Netflix’s The Old Guard, delivering the entire project during lockdown in 2020.[8]
Sara’s TV credits include supervising Merlin (BBC),[9] which won the 2011 BAFTA Television Craft Award for visual effects amongst other awards, and she also was involved in award-winning Doctor Who (BBC), Primeval (ITV). Sara is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, BAFTA and the Visual Effects Society.
Filmography
- Hannibal (2001)
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
- Band of Brothers: season 1, episode 1 (2001)
- Black Hawk Down (2002)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
- Veronica Guerin (2003)
- 28 Week Later (2007)
- Torchwood season 1 episode 1-13, season 2 episode 1-13 (2008)
- Merlin season 1 episode 12-13 (2008)
- Demons season 1 episode 1-6 (2009)
- Skellig (2009)
- Cracks (2009)
- Alice season 1 episode 1-2, The flying scientists, (2010)[10]
- The Chronicles of Narnia: the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
- Magic Piano [11](2011)
- Snow White and the Huntsman(2012)
- Dredd (2012),
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
- Les Misérable (2012)
- Redemption (2013)
- 47 Ronin (2013)
- Sherlock season 3 episode 0-3 (2013-2014),
- Black Sails season 1 episode 8 (2014)
- Hercules (2014)
- Dracula Untold (2014)
- Get Santa (2014)
- Poltergeist (2015)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell season 1 episode 5 (2015)
- The Martian (2015)
- High-Rise (2015)
- Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands season 1 episode 1-12 (2016)
- Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them (2016)
- Mars season 1 episode 1,3 (2016)
- Assassin’s Creed (2016),
- Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
- Annihilation (2018)
- Alienist season 1 episode 1-5, 7, 8 (2018)
- Adrift (2018)
- The Old Guard (2020)
- The Woman King (2022)
References
- ^ admin (28 January 2021). "SARA BENNETT: Oscar-Winner Turns Passion Into Inspiration For Women In Film". VFX Voice Magazine. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ Women in VFX - Milk (Pt. 2) - Sara Bennett, retrieved 21 February 2024
- ^ Women in VFX - Milk (Pt. 2) - Sara Bennett, retrieved 21 February 2024
- ^ "Spotify". open.spotify.com. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ admin (28 January 2021). "SARA BENNETT: Oscar-Winner Turns Passion Into Inspiration For Women In Film". VFX Voice Magazine. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ Pennington2016-02-29T12:18:00+00:00, Adrian. "'Ex Machina's Sara Bennett first woman VFX supervisor to win Oscar". Screen. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "2016 Film Special Visual Effects | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ Frei, Vincent (15 November 2022). "The Woman King: Sara Bennett – Overall VFX Supervisor – Milk VFX". The Art of VFX (in French). Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ "Sara Bennett | Visual Effects". IMDb. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ Alice (Adventure, Drama, Fantasy), Caterina Scorsone, Andrew Lee Potts, Matt Frewer, Reunion Pictures, Alice Productions, Studio Eight Productions, 6 December 2009, retrieved 21 February 2024
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Clapp, Martin, Magic Piano (Animation, Short, Adventure), BreakThru Films, SMB Investments, retrieved 21 February 2024
External links
- Sara Bennett at IMDb