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Will Cohen(I)

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Will Cohen is one of the five founding owners of Milk, an independent, Academy and BAFTA award-winning visual effects company based in London. Will is Milk's CEO and Executive Producer.

Since Milk's launch in 2013, the team has created an impressive range of complex sequences for high-end TV and feature films, winning an Emmy for the BBC/Hartswood's Sherlock; three BAFTA Television Craft awards for the BBC's Doctor Who (2014 and 2015) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2016) and seven BAFTA Craft Award nominations. Milk co-founder Sara Bennett won an Oscar in 2016 for best visual effects on Alex Garland's feature Ex-Machina.

Milk's credits also include feature films Adrift, Annihilation (Alex Garland); Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (Warner Bros.); Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Lionsgate); Ben Wheatley's Free Fire and High-Rise, Everest (Universal), The Martian (20th Century Fox), The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Poltergeist (Fox/MGM), Brett Ratner's Hercules (Paramount/MGM) and Good Omens (Amazon/BBC); Channel 4/Amazon/Sony's sci-fi anthology Phillip K. Dick's Electric Dreams; Altered Carbon (Skydance/Netflix); The Alienist (TNT/Paramount); Sky One's 2016 Christmas Day feature The Last Dragonslayer, Thunderbirds Are Go (ITV), Class (BBC), My Mother And Other Strangers (BBC), Aberfan: The Green Hollow (BBC Wales), Beowulf (ITV) for television.

Prior to the launch of Milk, Will was Managing Director of Mill Film and TV for five years. Will established and lead the Mill Film and TV team, whose award-winning visual effects for high profile TV dramas such as Doctor Who and Merlin earned both a BAFTA and VES Award in 2009 and a BAFTA in 2011. Will oversaw projects including Doctor Who, Ice Age Giants and Sherlock for television and feature films: 28 Weeks Later, Snow White and the Huntsman and The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Will is an elected board member of the UK Screen Association and a member of BAFTA, The Visual Effects Society (VES) and the Creative Skillset Council.
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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 win & 5 nominations total

    Known for

    Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin in Adrift (2018)
    Adrift
    6.6
    • Visual Effects
    • 2018
    Karl Urban in Dredd (2012)
    Dredd
    7.1
    • Visual Effects
    • 2012
    Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, and Chris Hemsworth in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    6.1
    • Visual Effects
    • 2012
    Christopher Abbott in Possessor (2020)
    Possessor
    6.5
    • Visual Effects
    • 2020

    Credits

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    Visual Effects



    • Varada Sethu and Ncuti Gatwa in Doctor Who (2023)
      Doctor Who
      6.1
      TV Series
      • vfx producer
      • 2023–2024
    • Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Savannah Steyn in Intergalactic (2021)
      Intergalactic
      4.7
      TV Series
      • vfx executive producer
      • 2021
    • Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Marwan Kenzari, and KiKi Layne in The Old Guard (2020)
      The Old Guard
      6.7
      • executive producer: Milk Visual Effects
      • 2020
    • Emma, Paul, Daniel, Brian, and James in The Old Age Sword: The Movie (2020)
      The Old Age Sword: The Movie
      Video
      • executive producer: Mill Film
      • 2020
    • Christopher Abbott in Possessor (2020)
      Possessor
      6.5
      • visual effects executive producer: Milk Visual Effects
      • 2020
    • Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin in Adrift (2018)
      Adrift
      6.6
      • visual effects executive producer: Milk Visual Effects
      • 2018
    • Hattie Morahan and Michael Nevin in My Mother and Other Strangers (2016)
      My Mother and Other Strangers
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • visual effects producer (2016)
      • 2016
    • Jeremy Irons, Elisabeth Moss, Sienna Guillory, James Purefoy, Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, and Louis Suc in High-Rise (2015)
      High-Rise
      5.5
      • visual effects producer: Milk
      • 2015
    • Keanu Reeves, Rinko Kikuchi, Neil Fingleton, and Rick Genest in 47 Ronin (2013)
      47 Ronin
      6.3
      • visual effects producer: Mill Film
      • 2013
    • Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen, Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, and Eddie Redmayne in Les Misérables (2012)
      Les Misérables
      7.5
      • executive visual effects producer: The Mill
      • 2012
    • Karl Urban in Dredd (2012)
      Dredd
      7.1
      • executive producer: Mill Film
      • 2012
    • Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, and Chris Hemsworth in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
      Snow White and the Huntsman
      6.1
      • visual effects producer: Mill Film
      • 2012
    • Neverland (2011)
      Neverland
      6.3
      TV Mini Series
      • visual effects producer
      • 2011
    • Christopher Eccleston, Peter Capaldi, David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who (2005)
      Doctor Who
      8.5
      TV Series
      • executive visual effects producer
      • visual effects producer
      • 2005–2010
    • Skellig: The Owl Man (2009)
      Skellig: The Owl Man
      6.4
      TV Movie
      • visual effects executive producer: The Mill
      • 2009

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      Provided a commentary on the episodes The End of the World (2005) and Aliens of London (2005) for The Complete First Series Doctor Who (2005) DVD box set.

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