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Nigel Sumner

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Nigel Sumner is the Creative Director of ILM's Singapore & Sydney Studios, overseeing the company's artistic efforts and helping guide the trajectory of ILM's global strategy. He joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1999 as a Technical Director for the commercials division and, in 2000, transferred to the company's feature film division. In 2007, Sumner moved to Singapore to lead a global team of digital artists, spearheading a collaborative effort with ILM's American counterparts on numerous feature film and commercial productions. ILM Singapore projects include Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Marvel's The Avengers, and Guillermo Del Toro's 2013 science fiction epic, Pacific Rim, for which Sumner received a BAFTA nomination and the HPA Award for Outstanding Visual Effects. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Special Visual Effects Award and a Visual Effects Society Award for contributing to the 2016 smash hit Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.  Sumner holds a master's degree in Computer Animation from Bournemouth University, located in Dorset, England, where he taught animation techniques, software, and programming languages.  Information above via their Industrial Light & Magic Official Site Bio.

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Film Production

CG Supervisor:
2009  Star Trek

Sequence Supervisor:
2004  Van Helsing
2009  Star Trek

VFX Supervisor:
2004  Van Helsing
2009  Star Trek
2018  Solo: A Star Wars Story

Visual Effects Supervisor:
2004  Van Helsing
2009  Star Trek
2012  The Avengers
2013  Pacific Rim
2015  Strange Magic
2016  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2018  Solo: A Star Wars Story
2019  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2025  Avatar: Fire and Ash

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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:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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