Known for Visual Effects
Angus Bickerton is a British visual effects supervisor whose career spans more than three decades, with roughly twenty years serving as a VFX supervisor. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to high‑profile films and TV series, including Lost in Space, Band of Brothers, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Total Recall and The Monuments Men, among many others. Bickerton gained particular prominence as the visual effects supervisor on HBO’s House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel. He was hired in 2020 during the height of the COVID‑19 pandemic, charged with assembling and managing a global visual effects team, and overseeing the design and creation of the series’ dragons. He led a staff of dozens and coordinated nearly four months of dragon asset design for each creature, with hundreds of VFX artists working across England, Germany, Canada and beyond. His work on House of the Dragon earned him multiple major accolades. He received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2023 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie, credited as visual effects supervisor alongside his team. At the 2023 British Academy Television Craft Awards, he, together with team members Nikeah Forde, Asa Shoul, Mike Dawson and the facilities MPC and Pixomondo, won the BAFTA Television Craft Award for Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for House of the Dragon. In addition, Bickerton and his team garnered a Visual Effects Society nomination at the 21st VES Awards in the category Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode for their work on the episode “The Black Queen” from House of the Dragon, recognising the team including Nikeah Forde, Sven Martin, Michael Bell and Michael Dawson.
Filmography
25 films, 3 shows


Clayface
2026 · 1h 49m · US
Matt Hagen's meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss's actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge treatment that miraculously returns him to his former self… but also unexpectedly affects his grip on reality, spiraling him down a destructive path of all-consuming revenge.


Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · 1h 45m · US
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.


The King's Man
2021 · 2h 11m · UK
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.


Silent Night
2021 · 1h 32m · UK
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.


Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017 · 2h 21m · UK
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.


Victor Frankenstein
2015 · 1h 50m · UK
While searching for animal body parts at a London circus, radical scientist Victor Frankenstein meets gifted surgeon Igor Strausman. Not only does the brilliant doctor offer Strausman his friendship, but also a chance to work with him on groundbreaking research that could change the world forever. When Victor's experiments with life and death go too far, only Igor can bring him back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation.


The Monuments Men
2014 · 1h 58m · DE
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?


Total Recall
2012 · 1h 58m · CA
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.


Dark Shadows
2012 · 1h 53m · US
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.


Dimensions
2011 · 1h 39m · UK
Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s—but nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. His world is turned upside down upon meeting a charismatic and inspirational professor at a garden party, who demonstrates to Stephen and his friends what life would be like if they themselves were merely one, or two, dimensional beings. He then proceeds to explain that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel may actually be possible. As Stephen’s life unfolds, events lead him to dedicate himself to turning the Professor’s theories of time travel into reality. Jealousy, love, obsession, temptation and greed surround him, influencing his fragile mind and the direction of his work.


The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010 · 1h 53m · US
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.


Angels & Demons
2009 · 2h 19m · IT
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.


Inkheart
2008 · 1h 46m · US
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.


The Da Vinci Code
2006 · 2h 29m · US
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.


Firewall
2006 · 1h 45m · US
State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into his personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · 1h 49m · UK
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."


The Gathering Storm
2002 · 1h 34m · UK
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.


Animal Farm
1999 · 1h 31m · UK
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.


Lost in Space
1998 · 2h 10m · US
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.


The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996 · 1h 35m · CZ
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.


Project Shadowchaser III
1995 · 1h 39m · US
It has been 25 years since the ore spaceship Siberia was last heard from. Unfortunately, it is now on a collision course with the communications station Comstat 5 which is orbiting Mars. After one successful maneuver to avoid the Siberia, it rams Comstat 5 and the crew soon finds that the Siberia crew is dead and the reason that it has been missing for 25 years. But that reason is trying to destroy them all as it destroyed the Siberia crew.