Neil Corbould

Neil Corbould

Born	(1962-12-24) 24 December 1962 London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Special Effects Supervisor
Years active	1978 – present

Neil Corbould (born 24 December 1962) is a British special effects supervisor best known for his work on major blockbuster films such as Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down.^[1] He is the brother of fellow special effects supervisor Chris Corbould and Paul Corbould.

Neil Corbould started his career in Special Effects in 1978 on Superman: The Movie. This was followed by work on Saturn 3, The Elephant Man, American Werewolf in London, Victor Victoria, Pink Floyd – The Wall and Amadeus. In 1985, he started work on his first of three Bond films, as a technician on A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights. He was then given the opportunity of Supervising the floor effects on Licence to Kill. From 1990 to 1996 he worked on many films that included Highlander II: The Quickening, City of Joy, Cliffhanger, Leon and Muppet Treasure Island.

In 1995 he started on The Fifth Element which was his first film in the role of special effects supervisor for which he received a BAFTA.^[2] He went on to supervise the science fiction thriller Event Horizon which was followed by Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, for which he received a second BAFTA.^[3] This was followed by Entrapment and the Ridley Scott epic Gladiator for which he won an Academy Award.^[4] He also received double BAFTA nominations for Gladiator and for Vertical Limit in the same year.^[5] This was followed by work on The Mummy Returns and then a second collaboration with Ridley Scott on Black Hawk Down, which was filmed in Morocco.

In 2002, came Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow in Montreal, which earned him his third BAFTA.^[6] King Arthur and Kingdom of Heaven followed and in 2005 he travelled to Australia to start work on Superman Returns. For the work on Superman Returns the Special Effects team received both OSCAR and BAFTA Nominations for their work.^[7]^[8]

He also collaborated with Ed Zwick on Blood Diamond and Defiance.

In May 2007, he also made his directorial debut filming the pop promo "The Price Ya Gotta Pay" for band Saints of Eden.^[9]

In 2012, Corbould supervised the special effects on Red 2, directed by Dean Parisot and starting Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta Jones and Anthony Hopkins.

Corbould has just produced his first movie, The Coward, directed by David Roddham.^[10] Coward is a moving and insightful drama that takes us from the idyllic pastures of Ireland to the brutal and senseless trenches of the First World War.

In 2013, Corbould has been nominated for an Academy Award for the third time for the special visual effects for Snow White and the Huntsman.^[11]^[12]

Also in 2013, Corbould supervised the special effects on Hercules: The Thracian Wars, directed by Brett Ratner which was filmed in Budapest, followed by Exodus, which reunited him for the fourth time with director Ridley Scott.

Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón was released in 2013. Corbould was part of the visual effects team that supervised the practical effects element of the movie and was instrumental in the process of getting Gravity from script to screen. He worked closely with Tim Webber, the visual effects supervisor, in creating the ground breaking visual effects for the movie.

With the success of Gravity, Corbould received his fourth BAFTA award (8th BAFTA nomination) and his second Academy Award (4th Academy Award nomination).

Corbould is currently looking to direct Billingsgate, set in 1727, which tells a story of a young woman’s brutal journey to womanhood and her fight for survival in the bare-knuckle fighting world of 18th Century London.^[13]

References

↑ Corbould, Neil. "Neil Corbould imdb page". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "BAFTA Award for 'Fifth Element'". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "BAFTA Award for 'Saving Private Ryan'". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "OSCAR for 'Gladiator'". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "Double BAFTA Nomination for 'Gladiator' and 'Vertical Limit'".
↑ "BAFTA Award for 'The Day After Tomorrow'".
↑ "OSCAR Nomination for 'Superman Returns'". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "BAFTA Nomination for 'Superman Returns". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "Saints of Eden". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ Roddham, David. "The Coward". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "The OSCARS 2013". Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ The, Guardian (10 January 2013). "Oscars 2013: full list of nominations". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "Artysta pozostający w cieniu". Retrieved 4 June 2013.

External links

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

1963-1980	Emil Kosa, Jr. (1963) Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, and Hamilton Luske (1964) John Stears (1965) Art Cruickshank (1966) L. B. Abbott (1967) Stanley Kubrick (1968) Robbie Robertson (1969) L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1970) Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee (1971) L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1972) no award given (1973) Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, and Albert Whitlock (1974) Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1975) Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, and Frank Van der Veer (1976) John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, and Robert Blalack (1977) Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, and Zoran Perisic (1978) H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, and Dennis Ayling (1979) Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (1980)

1981-2000	Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, and Joe Johnston (1981) Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, and Kenneth F. Smith (1982) Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett (1983) Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, and George Gibbs (1984) Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar, and David Berry (1985) Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, and Suzanne Benson (1986) Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup, and Kenneth F. Smith (1987) Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, and George Gibbs (1988) John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, and Dennis Skotak (1989) Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, and Alex Funke (1990) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr., and Robert Skotak (1991) Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe, and Tom Woodruff, Jr. (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Lippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993) Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Allen Rall (1994) Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan, and John Cox (1995) Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney, and Joe Viskocil (1996) Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer (1997) Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robinson, and Kevin Mack (1998) John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum (1999) John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, and Rob Harvey (2000)

2001-2020	Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor, Mark Stetson (2001) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2002) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003) John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004) Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor (2005) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Wood (2007) Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, and Craig Barron (2008) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb (2010) Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning (2011) Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott (2012) Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013) Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014) Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst (2015)

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