Known for Visual Effects
Paul Kavanagh is a British visual effects artist nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Visual Effects category for his work on Star Trek. His nomination was shared with Burt Dalton, Russell Earl and Roger Guyett. In 2016, he and his colleagues Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett and Neal Scanlan received the BAFTA Award in the Best Special Visual Effects category for their work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. They were also nominated for an Academy Award but lost to Ex Machina. He has worked on 30 films to date since his start in 1996. He graduated from Bournemouth University in 1991 with a Master's in Computer Animation and Visualisation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Kavanagh (visual effects artist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
21 films, 3 shows


Superman
2025 · 2h 10m
country: United States
Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.


Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019 · 2h 22m
country: United States
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.


Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · 2h 34m
country: United States
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.


Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · 2h 16m
country: United States
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.


Star Trek Into Darkness
2013 · 2h 12m
country: United States
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.


G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2013 · 1h 50m
country: Canada
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.


Red Tails
2012 · 2h 5m
country: United States
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.


Super 8
2011 · 1h 52m
country: United States
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense of fear, as they uncover that something terrifying has been set loose.


Avatar
2009 · 2h 42m
country: United States
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.


Star Trek
2009 · 2h 7m
country: United States
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.


Lions for Lambs
2007 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.


Mission: Impossible III
2006 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.