A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born:
June 24, 1955
Died:
March 30, 2024
Tom McGovern (June 24, 1955 - March 30, 2024) worked in visual effects for film for over 40 years. He was a senior visual effects supervisor, founding member of Sony Pictures Imageworks where he was senior VP of creative and technical affairs, and chief creative officer of animation development at the production company Whisper Pictures. He was also a founding member and board member of Visual Effects Society (VES) as well as a founding co-chair of the VES Awards. He began his career in the early days of digital, computer-based VFX, including work on pioneering 1982 movie Tron while at the former Robert Abel and Associates. He went on to become a founding member of Sony Pictures Imageworks, serving as senior VFX supervisor, as well as senior VP of creative and technical affairs. At Imageworks, his work ranged from Last Action Hero to The Ghost and the Darkness. He received a Special Achievement Oscar for the VFX in the 1990 sci-fi classic Total Recall on which he served as CGI director. He was working at DNEG, earning credits on movies including Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Dunkirk, Ant-Man at the Wasp, First Man, Men in Black: International, and Jungle Cruise. In recent years he lived in Mumbai, where DNEG has a base, and additionally served as chief creative officer of animation development at the production company Whisper Pictures. He received the Visual Effects Society Founders Award and was awarded VES Fellowship and Lifetime Membership. He was a founding member of the Society and a board member for nearly 20 years, including a stint as vice chair. For VES, he also served as founding co-chair of the VES Awards, which were presented for the 22nd time in February 2024. Info from Variety article: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/tim-mcgovern-dead-vfx-total-recall-1235956282/amp/
Digital Effects Supervisor:
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019 Men in Black: International
2019 Triple Frontier
2021 Jungle Cruise
Systems Administrators & Support:
1982 Tron
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019 Men in Black: International
2019 Triple Frontier
2021 Jungle Cruise
Visual Effects Supervisor:
1982 Tron
1996 The Ghost and the Darkness
1997 As Good as It Gets
1999 Stigmata
2002 Equilibrium
2002 FearDotCom
2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2015 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
2017 Dunkirk
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 First Man
2019 Men in Black: International
2019 Triple Frontier
2021 Jungle Cruise
2023 Shazam! Fury of the Gods
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.