A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Sandra Balej is a visual effects supervisor. Balej began her career as a finishing artist, honing her skills in assembling and refining visual elements for final shots. This early work laid the foundation for her transition to compositing supervision, where she led teams at several visual effects houses, including Method Studios. Her expertise in compositing enabled her to move into roles as an on-set and production VFX supervisor, where she became responsible for integrating complex digital effects into live-action environments. Her credits include major Hollywood blockbusters such as Mulan (2020), where she served as Compositing Supervisor, and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), where she acted as Digital Effects Supervisor. She also worked on Elysium (2013), The Maze Runner (2014), Doctor Strange (2016), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017), handling the assembly of intricate visual sequences. Her work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe continued with television series, including WandaVision (2021), Loki (2021–2023), and Ms. Marvel (2022), where she held various supervisory roles, including Additional VFX Supervisor. The industry has recognised Balej’s contributions through multiple nominations, including two Primetime Emmy Award nods for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie. She received these nominations for her work on WandaVision and Loki, where she served as an Additional VFX Supervisor.
2D Supervisor:
2020 Mulan
Compositing Artist:
2011 Anonymous
2013 Elysium
2020 Mulan
Compositing Lead:
2011 Anonymous
2013 Elysium
2013 White House Down
2014 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014 The Maze Runner
2020 Mulan
Compositing Supervisor:
2011 Anonymous
2013 Elysium
2013 White House Down
2014 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014 The Maze Runner
2016 Doctor Strange
2017 Thor: Ragnarok
2017 Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2020 Mulan
Digital Compositor:
2011 Anonymous
2011 Fast Five
2013 Elysium
2013 White House Down
2014 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014 The Maze Runner
2016 Doctor Strange
2017 Thor: Ragnarok
2017 Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2020 Mulan
Digital Effects Supervisor:
2011 Anonymous
2011 Fast Five
2013 Elysium
2013 White House Down
2014 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014 The Maze Runner
2016 Doctor Strange
2017 Thor: Ragnarok
2017 Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp
2020 Mulan
Visual Effects Supervisor:
2021 Loki
2022 Ms. Marvel
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
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.