Tim McGovern, a visual effects veteran who earned an Oscar for his work on 1990’s Total Recall, died Saturday. He was 68.
His wife, Reena NeGandhi, posted the news on Facebook.
“Today is the saddest day of my life,” she wrote. “My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall and several more awards from the Ves has died today. He passed away in his sleep.”
A digital effects pioneer, McGovern was a Visual Effects Society board member for nearly two decades. He served as vice chair as well as founding co-chair of the Ves Awards committee. In October, McGovern received the Ves Founders Award and was bestowed lifetime Ves membership.
“We were saddened and shocked by the sudden news of Tim’s untimely passing,” said Kim Davidson, Ves chair. “Tim and I have been Ves members and colleagues for many years, and his passion...
His wife, Reena NeGandhi, posted the news on Facebook.
“Today is the saddest day of my life,” she wrote. “My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall and several more awards from the Ves has died today. He passed away in his sleep.”
A digital effects pioneer, McGovern was a Visual Effects Society board member for nearly two decades. He served as vice chair as well as founding co-chair of the Ves Awards committee. In October, McGovern received the Ves Founders Award and was bestowed lifetime Ves membership.
“We were saddened and shocked by the sudden news of Tim’s untimely passing,” said Kim Davidson, Ves chair. “Tim and I have been Ves members and colleagues for many years, and his passion...
- 3/31/2024
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tim McGovern, the visual effects artist and Oscar winner for his work on the 1990 film Total Recall, has died. He was 68.
McGovern’s wife, Reena NeGandhi, shared news of her husband on social media.
“Today is the saddest day of my life. My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall and several more awards from the Ves has died today. He passed away in his sleep,” NeGhandi shared on Facebook.
NeGhandi shared that he found McGovern unresponsive and called the ambulance but was declared “dead on arrival.”
“When I went to go wake him up at 1pm He wasn’t getting up and I realised he had no heart beat or pulse,” she continued. “I quickly called the ambulance. We took him to the hospital they tried to revive him with CPR but it didn’t work and they claimed him dead on arrival.
McGovern’s wife, Reena NeGandhi, shared news of her husband on social media.
“Today is the saddest day of my life. My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall and several more awards from the Ves has died today. He passed away in his sleep,” NeGhandi shared on Facebook.
NeGhandi shared that he found McGovern unresponsive and called the ambulance but was declared “dead on arrival.”
“When I went to go wake him up at 1pm He wasn’t getting up and I realised he had no heart beat or pulse,” she continued. “I quickly called the ambulance. We took him to the hospital they tried to revive him with CPR but it didn’t work and they claimed him dead on arrival.
- 3/31/2024
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Visual effects veteran Tim McGovern, who received a Special Achievement Oscar for the VFX in the 1990 sci-fi classic “Total Recall,” has died, his wife Reena NeGandhi announced Saturday on social media. He was 68.
The VFX innovator served as CGI director on Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall,” which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was based on Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.” McGovern’s work on the film included the inventive effects used as Schwarzenegger’s Quaid and others pass through a sort of X-ray security check revealing their skeletons.
“We were saddened and shocked by the sudden news of Tim’s untimely passing,” said Kim Davidson, Visual Effects Society board chair, in a statement. “Tim and I have been Ves members and colleagues for many years and his passion and loyalty to the Society were exemplary. Tim’s insights, expertise and volunteer leadership have been key...
The VFX innovator served as CGI director on Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall,” which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was based on Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.” McGovern’s work on the film included the inventive effects used as Schwarzenegger’s Quaid and others pass through a sort of X-ray security check revealing their skeletons.
“We were saddened and shocked by the sudden news of Tim’s untimely passing,” said Kim Davidson, Visual Effects Society board chair, in a statement. “Tim and I have been Ves members and colleagues for many years and his passion and loyalty to the Society were exemplary. Tim’s insights, expertise and volunteer leadership have been key...
- 3/31/2024
- by Carolyn Giardina
- Variety Film + TV
Following the recent votes by VFX workers at Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel to unionize with IATSE, a call for collective bargaining received enthusiastic applause during an intimate Visual Effects Society Honors ceremony and reception Friday at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center.
Referencing the SAG-AFTRA strike and recently ended WGA strike, honoree Bob Coleman, a veteran VFX artist agent and exec, said “a lot of damage has been done, but progress has been made for those two guilds. But the artists in this room and artists all around the world have not fared so well without collective bargaining. And without collective bargaining, there will be no progress for them.” He added, “I believe this is one of the greatest inequities in our industry, and I hope this inequity can be righted.”
Each October, the organization holds a gathering to recognize leaders in its close-knit community. This year, Tim McGovern,...
Referencing the SAG-AFTRA strike and recently ended WGA strike, honoree Bob Coleman, a veteran VFX artist agent and exec, said “a lot of damage has been done, but progress has been made for those two guilds. But the artists in this room and artists all around the world have not fared so well without collective bargaining. And without collective bargaining, there will be no progress for them.” He added, “I believe this is one of the greatest inequities in our industry, and I hope this inequity can be righted.”
Each October, the organization holds a gathering to recognize leaders in its close-knit community. This year, Tim McGovern,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the full lineup for their 2023 festival, which will run in person from Oct. 25 to Oct. 29. The festival will feature the world premiere of Rob Reiner’s “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life” and the world premiere of Matthew Brown’s “Freud’s Last Session,” starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode.
Other titles include Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers,” Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From,” Christos Nikou’s “Fingernails,” Michel Franco’s “Memory,” Jessica Yu’s “Quiz Lady” and J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow.”
AFI previously announced that Sam Esmail’s “Leave the World Behind,” starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke, will open the festival on Oct. 25. The Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, will close the festival. “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story” is the Centerpiece film.
Other titles include Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers,” Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From,” Christos Nikou’s “Fingernails,” Michel Franco’s “Memory,” Jessica Yu’s “Quiz Lady” and J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow.”
AFI previously announced that Sam Esmail’s “Leave the World Behind,” starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke, will open the festival on Oct. 25. The Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, will close the festival. “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story” is the Centerpiece film.
- 9/29/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay, McKinley Franklin, Jaden Thompson and Caroline Brew
- Variety Film + TV
The Visual Effects Society (Ves), the visual effects industry’s professional global honorary society, has announced the Society’s newest Ves Fellows.
They will be celebrated with other honorees at a special event in October, exact date Tba.
This year’s Ves Fellows are Jeff Barnes, Toni Pace Carstensen, Bob Coleman, Chuck Finance, Shannon Gans, Tim McGovern, and Ray McMillan.
“Our Ves honorees represent a group of exceptional artists, innovators and professionals who have had a profound impact on the field of visual effects and in service to our global Society,” said Ves Board Chair Lisa Cooke. “We are proud to recognize those who helped shape our shared legacy and our worldwide VFX community, and continue to inspire future generations of VFX practitioners.”
Ves 2023 Fellows:
Jeff Barnes, Ves is an entertainment and technology creative executive who continues to make marked impacts across Silicon Valley and Hollywood. As the EVP of...
They will be celebrated with other honorees at a special event in October, exact date Tba.
This year’s Ves Fellows are Jeff Barnes, Toni Pace Carstensen, Bob Coleman, Chuck Finance, Shannon Gans, Tim McGovern, and Ray McMillan.
“Our Ves honorees represent a group of exceptional artists, innovators and professionals who have had a profound impact on the field of visual effects and in service to our global Society,” said Ves Board Chair Lisa Cooke. “We are proud to recognize those who helped shape our shared legacy and our worldwide VFX community, and continue to inspire future generations of VFX practitioners.”
Ves 2023 Fellows:
Jeff Barnes, Ves is an entertainment and technology creative executive who continues to make marked impacts across Silicon Valley and Hollywood. As the EVP of...
- 9/28/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple has debuted the first official trailer for John Carney’s “Flora and Son,” which stars Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Single mother Flora (Hewson) is unsure what to do with her rowdy teenage son, Max (Orén Kinlan) when the police suggest he picks up a hobby. Max swiftly turns to the art of music with the help of a “washed-up L.A. musician” (Gordon-Levitt), with the family learning the true “transformative power of music.” The first official trailer gives audiences a glimpse at the heartfelt story showcasing the bond between a mother and her son.
The musical drama will hit select theaters on Sept. 22 and release globally via Apple TV+ on Sept. 29.
Jack Reynor will star alongside Hewson, Gordon-Levitt and Kinlan. Carney serves as director, writer and producer alongside Rebecca producers O’Flanagan, Robert Walpole, Anthony Bregman. Hewson, Gordon-Levitt, Reynor and Kinlan all executive produce.
Watch the official trailer below.
Single mother Flora (Hewson) is unsure what to do with her rowdy teenage son, Max (Orén Kinlan) when the police suggest he picks up a hobby. Max swiftly turns to the art of music with the help of a “washed-up L.A. musician” (Gordon-Levitt), with the family learning the true “transformative power of music.” The first official trailer gives audiences a glimpse at the heartfelt story showcasing the bond between a mother and her son.
The musical drama will hit select theaters on Sept. 22 and release globally via Apple TV+ on Sept. 29.
Jack Reynor will star alongside Hewson, Gordon-Levitt and Kinlan. Carney serves as director, writer and producer alongside Rebecca producers O’Flanagan, Robert Walpole, Anthony Bregman. Hewson, Gordon-Levitt, Reynor and Kinlan all executive produce.
Watch the official trailer below.
- 8/23/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay, Jaden Thompson and McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s Total Recall and a Visual Effects Society founding member, will receive the Ves Founders Award during an October ceremony. Also during the event, lifetime Ves membership will be bestowed on McGovern, archivist and curator Sandra Joy Aguilar, producer and AMPAS Governor Brooke Breton and VFX artist agent and exec Bob Coleman.
Digital effects pioneer McGovern is a founding member of Sony Pictures ImageWorks and now works at Dneg Mumbai, while also serving as chief creative officer at Whisper Pictures, a development and production company focused on animated family films. He’s been a Ves board member for nearly two decades, which included serving as the board’s vice chair and founding co-chair of the Ves Awards committee.
Aguilar currently oversees metadata and indexing at University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. She’s...
Digital effects pioneer McGovern is a founding member of Sony Pictures ImageWorks and now works at Dneg Mumbai, while also serving as chief creative officer at Whisper Pictures, a development and production company focused on animated family films. He’s been a Ves board member for nearly two decades, which included serving as the board’s vice chair and founding co-chair of the Ves Awards committee.
Aguilar currently oversees metadata and indexing at University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. She’s...
- 8/22/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Visual Effects Society has composited its first group of 2023 honorees.
Oscar-winning VFX supervisor and Ves founding member Tim McGovern will receive the 2023 Ves Founders Award, and the group has awarded lifetime Ves memberships to McGovern, archivist and curator Sandra Joy Aguilar, producer and AMPAS Governor Brooke Breton and VFX artist agent and executive Bob Coleman.
They will be celebrated at a special event in October, Ves said. That ceremony’s date and additional honorees are Tba.
“Our Ves honorees represent a group of exceptional artists, innovators and professionals who have had a profound impact on the field of visual effects, our industry and the Society,” Ves Board Chair Lisa Cooke said. “We are proud to recognize those who helped shape our shared legacy and continue to inspire future generations of VFX practitioners.”
Here are bios of the honorees, provided by the Visual Effects Society:
Tim McGovern has been named...
Oscar-winning VFX supervisor and Ves founding member Tim McGovern will receive the 2023 Ves Founders Award, and the group has awarded lifetime Ves memberships to McGovern, archivist and curator Sandra Joy Aguilar, producer and AMPAS Governor Brooke Breton and VFX artist agent and executive Bob Coleman.
They will be celebrated at a special event in October, Ves said. That ceremony’s date and additional honorees are Tba.
“Our Ves honorees represent a group of exceptional artists, innovators and professionals who have had a profound impact on the field of visual effects, our industry and the Society,” Ves Board Chair Lisa Cooke said. “We are proud to recognize those who helped shape our shared legacy and continue to inspire future generations of VFX practitioners.”
Here are bios of the honorees, provided by the Visual Effects Society:
Tim McGovern has been named...
- 8/22/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
A bunch of sequels and a remake are vying for the Best Visual Effects Oscar this year, many of them from Disney, including Bill Condon’s live-action remake of Disney’s classic “Beauty and the Beast,” Marvel’s “Thor: Ragnarok” and Lucasfilm’s upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”
Three Fox films offer stunning VFX: “War for the Planet of the Apes,” which advances its visual effects technology over the last Matt Reeves installment featuring Weta Digital’s astonishing array of digital apes led by performance capture master Andy Serkis as Caesar, could win Weta’s Joe Letteri (“Avatar,” “King Kong,” “The Lord of the Rings”) his fifth Oscar. Another visually sumptuous sequel is Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049.” And Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” is also impressive.
Two Warner Bros. blockbusters, Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic “Dunkirk” and Patty Jenkins’ World War I superhero origin myth “Wonder Woman,...
Three Fox films offer stunning VFX: “War for the Planet of the Apes,” which advances its visual effects technology over the last Matt Reeves installment featuring Weta Digital’s astonishing array of digital apes led by performance capture master Andy Serkis as Caesar, could win Weta’s Joe Letteri (“Avatar,” “King Kong,” “The Lord of the Rings”) his fifth Oscar. Another visually sumptuous sequel is Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049.” And Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” is also impressive.
Two Warner Bros. blockbusters, Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic “Dunkirk” and Patty Jenkins’ World War I superhero origin myth “Wonder Woman,...
- 11/18/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Wayne Kramer has signed on to direct Caught Stealing for Myriad Pictures, who will bring the project to the Afm next week. In separate production news, Gnosis and Whisper Pictures are moving ahead on Tusk: Hannibal’s Favorite Elephant.
The Afm-bound thriller Caught Stealing stars Patrick Wilson and Alec Baldwin and is based on a screenplay by David Hayter of X-Men and Watchmen fame from the novel of the same name by Charlie Huston.
Myriad represents international rights and will work with Apa on a Us sale. Caught Stealing centres on a former high school baseball star who gets caught up in a bloody treasure hunt through New York.
Lost Rhino Films’ Marcus Chait, James Carpinello, and Wilson will produce. Paula Wagner serves as executive producer alongside Myriad head Kirk D’Amico.
Kramer most recently directed Pawn Shop Chronicles and his credits include The Cooler, Running Scared and Crossing Over.
Gnosis Moving...
The Afm-bound thriller Caught Stealing stars Patrick Wilson and Alec Baldwin and is based on a screenplay by David Hayter of X-Men and Watchmen fame from the novel of the same name by Charlie Huston.
Myriad represents international rights and will work with Apa on a Us sale. Caught Stealing centres on a former high school baseball star who gets caught up in a bloody treasure hunt through New York.
Lost Rhino Films’ Marcus Chait, James Carpinello, and Wilson will produce. Paula Wagner serves as executive producer alongside Myriad head Kirk D’Amico.
Kramer most recently directed Pawn Shop Chronicles and his credits include The Cooler, Running Scared and Crossing Over.
Gnosis Moving...
- 10/29/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Wayne Kramer has signed on to direct Caught Stealing for Myriad Pictures, who will bring the project to the Afm next week. In separate production news, Gnosis and Whisper Pictures are moving ahead on Tusk: Hannibal’s Favorite Elephant.
The Afm-bound thriller Caught Stealing stars Patrick Wilson and Alec Baldwin and is based on a screenplay by David Hayter of X-Men and Watchmen fame from the novel of the same name by Charlie Huston.
Myriad represents international rights and will work with Apa on a Us sale. Caught Stealing centres on a former high school baseball star who gets caught up in a bloody treasure hunt through New York.
Lost Rhino Films’ Marcus Chait, James Carpinello, and Wilson will produce. Paula Wagner serves as executive producer alongside Myriad head Kirk D’Amico.
Kramer most recently directed Pawn Shop Chronicles and his credits include The Cooler, Running Scared and Crossing Over.
Gnosis Moving...
The Afm-bound thriller Caught Stealing stars Patrick Wilson and Alec Baldwin and is based on a screenplay by David Hayter of X-Men and Watchmen fame from the novel of the same name by Charlie Huston.
Myriad represents international rights and will work with Apa on a Us sale. Caught Stealing centres on a former high school baseball star who gets caught up in a bloody treasure hunt through New York.
Lost Rhino Films’ Marcus Chait, James Carpinello, and Wilson will produce. Paula Wagner serves as executive producer alongside Myriad head Kirk D’Amico.
Kramer most recently directed Pawn Shop Chronicles and his credits include The Cooler, Running Scared and Crossing Over.
Gnosis Moving...
- 10/29/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Chennai, April 9: Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan will participate in a panel discussion as part of a National Association of Broadcasters (Nab) show, an electronic media show covering filmed entertainment, to discuss the international appeal of Bollywood. The event is being held in Las Vegas.
"This landmark session will commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema, and will offer a look behind the scenes of 'Vishwaroopam', a Tamil spy thriller written, directed, starring and co-produced by Kamal Haasan," a statement said.
In the session, Haasan will be joined by Jeff Kleiser, board director of the Visual Effects Society, actress Pooja Kumar, visual effects supervisors Tim McGovern and Madhu Sudhanan N., and Ravi Velhal, global content.
"This landmark session will commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema, and will offer a look behind the scenes of 'Vishwaroopam', a Tamil spy thriller written, directed, starring and co-produced by Kamal Haasan," a statement said.
In the session, Haasan will be joined by Jeff Kleiser, board director of the Visual Effects Society, actress Pooja Kumar, visual effects supervisors Tim McGovern and Madhu Sudhanan N., and Ravi Velhal, global content.
- 4/9/2013
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Ficci Frames had a quick start on Day 2 and though the turnout didn't seem as high as a day 1, there were an interesting set of sessions. The highlights- The first keynote of the day was delivered by Ronnie Screwvala of Utv, where he shed light on the future of the film industry. A highly engaging panel discussion underlining the need of the hour of the Indian film industry - good screenplays. The session The Screenplay: Indian Cinema's Missing Link was moderated by Ben Rekhi. The panel constituted prolific writers like - Javed Akhtar, Kamlesh Pandey, Steven de Souza and Vijay Krishna Acharya. The lone producer amongst these writers on the panel was Utv Motion Pictures CEO Siddharth Roy Kapoor. The writers expressed concern over the shoddy treatment Indian screenwriters are given by the producers, who do not realize the importance of a good screenplay. Everyone on the panel agreed that...
- 3/18/2010
- by Money Sharma and Sahirr Sethhi
- BollywoodHungama
Ficci Frames had a quick start on Day 2 and though the turnout didn't seem as high as a day 1, there were an interesting set of sessions. The highlights- The first keynote of the day was delivered by Ronnie Screwvala of Utv, where he shed light on the future of the film industry. A highly engaging panel discussion underlining the need of the hour of the Indian film industry - good screenplays. The session The Screenplay: Indian Cinema's Missing Link was moderated by Ben Rekhi. The panel constituted prolific writers like - Javed Akhtar, Kamlesh Pandey, Steven de Souza and Vijay Krishna Acharya. The lone producer amongst these writers on the panel was Utv Motion Pictures CEO Siddharth Roy Kapoor. The writers expressed concern over the shoddy treatment Indian screenwriters are given by the producers, who do not realize the importance of a good screenplay. Everyone on the panel agreed that...
- 3/18/2010
- by Money Sharma and Sahirr Sethhi
- BollywoodHungama
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