Known for Visual Effects
Joel Behrens is an American visual effects supervisor at Digital Domain, who has worked on more than forty feature films as well as episodic and commercial projects. He began his career in visual effects in 2002 at Asylum Visual Effects. Over the years, he progressed through roles such as Compositing Supervisor, Digital Effects Supervisor, and then Visual Effects Supervisor. His credits include work on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Ready Player One (2018), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), and Morbius (2022). He was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award in 2008 for Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. He was nominated in 2022 for a Hollywood Professional Association Award for Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical Feature for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Filmography
17 films


Disclosure Day
2026 · 2h 26m
country: United States
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.


The Electric State
2025 · 2h 5m
country: United States
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.


Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.


Morbius
2022 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.