Visual effects expert, Oscar winner for Total Recall

Tim McGovern at the 2013 Visual Effects Society Awards

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Tim McGovern, the visual effects expert who won an Oscar for his work in the 1990s total recall, He died Saturday. He was 68 years old.

His wife, Rina Negandi, posted the news on Facebook.

“Today is the saddest day of my life,” she wrote. “My husband is Tim McGovern, who won an Oscar for visual effects in the 1990s Total recall Many other awards from VES died today. “He died in his sleep.”

McGovern, a digital effects pioneer, has been a member of the board of directors of the Visual Effects Society for nearly two decades. He served as Vice President as well as Founding Co-Chair of the VES Awards Committee. In October, McGovern received the VES Founders Award and was given a lifetime VES membership.

“We are saddened and shocked by the sudden news of Tim’s untimely passing,” said Kim Davidson, President of VES. “Tim and I have been members and colleagues of VES for many years, and his passion and loyalty to the association have been exemplary. Tim’s insights, experience and volunteer leadership have been fundamental to our global expansion, and he will be greatly missed by all of us.”

McGovern has several film credits on his resume, starting in 1982 You see, Which he worked on while working with the former firm of Robert Abel and Associates.

He became a founding member of Sony Pictures ImageWorks, where he worked on films such as the 2015 film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, 2017 Dunkirk2018 ant man and the wasp, 2019 Men in Black: International And 2021 Jungle trip.

Other credits include 1993 The hero of the last action, so she married an ax murderer And Look who’s talking now; 1997 As best as possible; And 2023 Shazam! The wrath of the gods.

Most recently, he worked at DNEG Mumbai and served as the Creative Director at Whisper Pictures, a company that develops and produces animated family films.

In 1991, McGovern was awarded a Special Academy Award for his work Total recall. He also won numerous CLIO Awards throughout his career and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch.

According to his biography on IMDBpro, McGovern was born on June 24, 1955, in Chicago. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, double majoring in photography and graphic design, in the late 1970s. He received his doctorate from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco in 2001.

McGovern has written a movie and a novel and plans to “take it over to make it for him,” Negandy said in her post.

“He had so many life dreams for his movie and now he’s gone,” she wrote. “He left it in my hands to make it happen now. I have no idea how I would live without him. He took such good care of me and was my world. May his soul rest in peace.”