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Michael Owens(I)

  • Visual Effects
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Art Department
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Michael Owens is known for Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Changeling (2008) and Hereafter (2010).
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 4 wins & 8 nominations total

    Known for

    Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
    Flags of Our Fathers
    7.1
    • Visual Effects
    • 2006
    Angelina Jolie and Gattlin Griffith in Changeling (2008)
    Changeling
    7.7
    • Visual Effects
    • 2008
    Matt Damon and Cécile de France in Hereafter (2010)
    Hereafter
    6.5
    • Visual Effects
    • 2010
    Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Cher in The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
    The Witches of Eastwick
    6.6
    • Visual Effects
    • 1987

    Credits

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    Visual Effects

    • Rinko Kikuchi, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Ansel Elgort, and Shô Kasamatsu in Tokyo Vice (2022)
      Tokyo Vice
      8.1
      TV Series
      • senior visual effects supervisor
      • 2022
    • 1883 (2021)
      1883
      8.6
      TV Mini Series
      • visual effects supervisor
      • 2021–2022
    • Willem Dafoe in Togo (2019)
      Togo
      7.9
      • consulting visual effects supervisor (uncredited)
      • 2019
    • Tom Hanks in Sully (2016)
      Sully
      7.4
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2016
    • Bradley Cooper in American Sniper (2014)
      American Sniper
      7.3
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2014
    • Jersey Boys (2014)
      Jersey Boys
      6.8
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2014
    • Clint Eastwood in Trouble with the Curve (2012)
      Trouble with the Curve
      6.8
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2012
    • Aaron Toney in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
      Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
      5.9
      • visual effects supervisor
      • 2012
    • Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar (2011)
      J. Edgar
      6.5
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2011
    • Matt Damon and Cécile de France in Hereafter (2010)
      Hereafter
      6.5
      • designer: tsunami sequence
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2010
    • Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Invictus (2009)
      Invictus
      7.3
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2009
    • Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino (2008)
      Gran Torino
      8.1
      • production visual effects supervisor (uncredited)
      • 2008
    • Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, and Jack Black in Tropic Thunder (2008)
      Tropic Thunder
      7.1
      • additional visual effects supervisor
      • 2008
    • Angelina Jolie and Gattlin Griffith in Changeling (2008)
      Changeling
      7.7
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2008
    • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
      Letters from Iwo Jima
      7.8
      • production visual effects supervisor
      • 2006

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
      Letters from Iwo Jima
      7.8
      • second unit director
      • 2006
    • Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
      Flags of Our Fathers
      7.1
      • second unit director
      • 2006
    • Kate Beckinsale, Shuler Hensley, Hugh Jackman, Richard Roxburgh, and Will Kemp in Van Helsing (2004)
      Van Helsing
      6.1
      • additional unit director (uncredited)
      • 2004
    • Viggo Mortensen in Hidalgo (2004)
      Hidalgo
      6.7
      • second unit director (uncredited)
      • 2004
    • Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in Men in Black II (2002)
      Men in Black II
      6.2
      • second unit director: New York Second Unit
      • 2002
    • Promo Poster
      Space Cowboys
      6.5
      • additional unit director (uncredited)
      • 2000
    • Nicolas Cage in Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
      Bringing Out the Dead
      6.9
      • additional unit director (uncredited)
      • 1999
    • D.B. Sweeney in Fire in the Sky (1993)
      Fire in the Sky
      6.5
      • additional unit director (uncredited)
      • 1993
    • Walter Koenig, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
      Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
      7.3
      • second unit director
      • 1986

    Art Department

    • Promo Poster
      Space Cowboys
      6.5
      • space sequence designer (uncredited)
      • 2000
    • D.B. Sweeney in Fire in the Sky (1993)
      Fire in the Sky
      6.5
      • alien sequence designer
      • 1993

    Personal details

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    • Alternative name
      • Mike Owens

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