Uplink 64: Filming the Future
Don’t miss Uplink episode 64 this Thursday, 24th February when we’ll be joined by Oscar-winning VFX ace Paul Franklin for a very special look back at the work of recently departed VFX legend and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ visionary, Douglas Trumbull. We’ll also be surveying the role that cinema has to play in communicating big ideas about the great beyond. We’ll be live from 8pm GMT/9pm CET/3pm ET HERE.
Followers of Space Rocks will recognise Paul from Space Rocks London Live 2019 when he gave a fascinating talk on sci fi cinema special effects. Paul’s incredible career in movies and Visual FX (VFX) is one that speaks for itself. He is one of the founders and the Creative Director of DNEG, one of the world’s leading companies in visual effects who have won an Oscar for Best VFX four times in the last five years. He is, without doubt, one of Hollywood’s most respected people in VFX and whose vision and imagination has helped make some of the most memorable moments in cinematic history. DNEG most recently worked on the new 2022 Tom Holland action adventure movie Uncharted.
He has personally won and been nominated for multiple awards. His first Oscar win was in 2011 for Best Achievement in Visual Effects and also picked up a Bafta for Best Special Visual for the film Inception, he then repeated the feat in 2014 with Interstellar again picking up these two acclaimed gongs. On top of this, he has also received an Oscar nomination for his work on Batman The Dark Knight (2008), which was also nominated for a Bafta. He has also received Bafta nominations for Batman Begins (2006), The Dark Knight (2009) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Outside of the Academy Awards and Bafta, he has won three and been nominated for two Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. Won two Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards. Won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, a Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award, and a St. Louis Film Critics Association US Award. He has won two and been nominated for two Gold Derby Awards, has won and been nominated for both International Online Film Critics’ Poll Award and an Online Film & Television Association Award and has been nominated for four Satellite Awards, an International Online Cinema Award (INOCA) and a Seattle Film Critics Award.
