
Andrew Jackson
VFX Supervisor, Tenet, DNEG
Andrew Jackson is a VFX Supervisor at DNEG. He has extensive experience working on projects that showcase the power of invisible VFX and specialises in balancing visual and practical effects to create compelling photoreal work.
Andrew has most recently completed work as Production VFX Supervisor for Christopher Nolan on ‘Tenet’. Involved from the early stages of pre-production, Andrew was part of the filmmaking team that defined the rules and the look of ‘inverted entropy’ - the central device in the film.
Prior to his work on ‘Tenet’, Andrew was Production VFX Supervisor on Netflix’s drama ‘The King’, and before that he completed work as the Production VFX Supervisor on Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed World War II action-thriller ‘Dunkirk’, for which he won the VES Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. Andrew also received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Special Visual Effects for ‘Dunkirk’. In 2015, Andrew collaborated with George Miller to help create the atmospheric and fully immersive world of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, for which he won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Visual Effects and received both a BAFTA and an Academy Award nomination.
Andrew’s first role as VFX Supervisor was on the 2009 sci-fi drama, ‘Knowing’, for which he received a VES Award nomination in the prestigious Best Single Visual Effect of the Year category. Following this, Andrew took on the role of live-action VFX Supervisor on ‘Happy Feet Two’ and, through his work on this movie, established his working relationship with the director, producer and screenwriter George Miller.