One man is making ready for a “fairly unbelievable” Oscars night time, having discovered himself nominated 3 times this 12 months in the identical class.
Particular results supervisor Neil Corbould is up in opposition to himself twice over, after being recognised within the class for his work on three films – Mission Unattainable: Lifeless Reckoning Half One, The Creator and Napoleon.
Corbould has two earlier Oscars to his identify – for Gladiator and Gravity. He instructed the BBC that this 12 months’s close-to-hand competitors may very well be “the kiss of dying,” and stated:
“I might need three seats and must play musical chairs!” The perfect half? “I get invited to 3 completely different after events.”
Corbould has been working within the movie business for practically 5 a long time, having adopted his uncle into particular results. Colin Chilvers beforehand gained an Oscar himself, for his work on the 1978 film Superman. He additionally labored on The Rocky Horror Image Present (1975), Condorman (1981) and X-Males (2000), in addition to directing the ‘Easy Prison’ phase from Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker.
Neil instructed the BBC his first go to together with his uncle to the set of the film starring Christopher Reeve was what impressed his profession:
“I used to be an enormous Superman fan as a teen and I stored bugging him to take me into work with him, which he did finally. The primary set I noticed was the Fortress of Solitude set, with Christopher Reeves flying down the center of the stage with all of the smoke and the dry ice. From that day on, I believed, ‘That is what I wish to do.’”
The films up in opposition to Corbould on this 12 months’s Particular Results class are Godzilla Minus One and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Full class particulars under:
THE CREATOR
Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Man Williams and Theo Bialek
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould
NAPOLEON
Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould
