Chris Corbould

Christopher Charles Corbould, OBE (born 1958) is a British special effects coordinator best known for his work on major blockbuster films and the action scenes on some 11 James Bond films since the early 1980s. He has also worked extensively on the Superman and Batman film series on digital effects and stunts. Corbould has been awarded two Honorary Doctorates from Southampton Solent University in December 2009 and University of Hertfordshire in 2011.^[1] In 2011, he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 83rd Academy Awards for his work on Inception.^[2] He is the brother of special effects supervisors Neil Corbould and Paul Corbould.

In March 2011, Corbould went on trial for breaching health and safety regulations regarding the death of stunt technician Conway Wickliffe during production of The Dark Knight in 2007.^[3] He was found not guilty, with the incident ruled as an accident.^[2]

Corbould was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to film.^[4]

In 2015, Corbould was credited with Guinness World Records for the "Largest film stunt explosion" ever in cinematic history for Spectre.^[5]

Special effects filmography

Year	Film	Role
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
2015	Spectre	special effects supervisor - Guinness World Records for the "Largest film stunt explosion".
2012	Skyfall	special effects supervisor
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	special effects supervisor
2012	John Carter	special effects supervisor
2011	X-Men: First Class	special effects supervisor
2010	Inception	Won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects and VES Award
2008	Quantum of Solace	special effects coordinator
2008	The Dark Knight	Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
2006	Casino Royale	miniature effects supervisor, special effects supervisor
2005	Batman Begins	special effects coordinator
2003	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life	special effects director
2002	Die Another Day	special effects supervisor
2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	special effects supervisor
2000	102 Dalmatians	special effects coordinator
1999	The World Is Not Enough	special effects supervisor
1999	The Mummy	special effects supervisor
1998	Firestorm	special effects coordinator
1997	Tomorrow Never Dies	special effects supervisor
1996	The Ghost and the Darkness	special effects supervisor
1995	GoldenEye	special effects supervisor
1994	Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles	special effects floor supervisor
1993	Shadowlands	special effects supervisor
1993	The House of the Spirits	special effects technician
1993	Son of the Pink Panther	special effects senior technician
1992	Chaplin	special effects technician: London
1992	Alien 3	senior special effects technician
1992	Far and Away	special effects senior technician: Ireland
1991	Hudson Hawk	special effects technician
1991	Highlander II: The Quickening	special effects floor supervisor (uncredited)
1990	Nightbreed	special effects supervisor
1989	Licence to Kill	special effects supervisor: second unit
1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	special effects technician: UK (as Chris Cobould)
1988	Willow	senior special effects technician
1987	The Living Daylights	special effects
1986	Link	senior special effects technician
1986	The Delta Force	special effects
1985	Lifeforce	special effects crew
1985	A View to a Kill	special effects technician (uncredited)
1984	Supergirl	special effects technician
1983	Krull	special effects technician
1983	Superman III	special effects senior technician
1981	Condorman	special effects technician
1980	Superman II	special effects technician (uncredited)
1980	Saturn 3	special effects assistant

References

↑ http://portal.solent.ac.uk/careers/be-inspired/creative-inspiration/chris-courbald.aspx
1 2 "Stunt expert cleared in Batman cameraman death trial". BBC.
↑ "Oscar winner on trial over Batman stunt death". BBC.
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60728. p. 10. 31 December 2013.
↑ Rachel Swatman (10 November 2015). "Latest Bond adventure Spectre sets record for Largest film stunt explosion ever - watch incredible clip". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 11 November 2015.

External links

Chris Corbould at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

1963-1980	Emil Kosa, Jr. (1963) Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, and Hamilton Luske (1964) John Stears (1965) Art Cruickshank (1966) L. B. Abbott (1967) Stanley Kubrick (1968) Robbie Robertson (1969) L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1970) Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee (1971) L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1972) no award given (1973) Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, and Albert Whitlock (1974) Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1975) Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, and Frank Van der Veer (1976) John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, and Robert Blalack (1977) Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, and Zoran Perisic (1978) H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, and Dennis Ayling (1979) Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (1980)

1981-2000	Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, and Joe Johnston (1981) Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, and Kenneth F. Smith (1982) Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett (1983) Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, and George Gibbs (1984) Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar, and David Berry (1985) Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, and Suzanne Benson (1986) Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup, and Kenneth F. Smith (1987) Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, and George Gibbs (1988) John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, and Dennis Skotak (1989) Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, and Alex Funke (1990) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr., and Robert Skotak (1991) Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe, and Tom Woodruff, Jr. (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993) Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Allen Rall (1994) Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan, and John Cox (1995) Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney, and Joe Viskocil (1996) Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer (1997) Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robinson, and Kevin Mack (1998) John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum (1999) John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, and Rob Harvey (2000)

2001-present	Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor, Mark Stetson (2001) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2002) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003) John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004) Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor (2005) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Wood (2007) Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, and Craig Barron (2008) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb (2010) Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning (2011) Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott (2012) Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013) Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014) Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst (2015)

Saturn Award for Best Special Effects

Marcel Vercoutere (1977) Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt (1973) Douglas Knapp, Bill Taylor, John Carpenter, and Dan O'Bannon (1974/75) L. B. Abbott (1976) John Dykstra and John Stears (1977) Colin Chilvers (1978) Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, and Richard Yuricich (1979) Brian Johnson and Richard Edlund (1980) Richard Edlund (1981) Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren (1982) Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, and Ken Ralston (1983) Chris Walas (1984) Kevin Pike (1985) Stan Winston, Robert Skotak and Dennis Skotak (1986) Peter Kuran, Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, and Rocco Gioffre (1987) George Gibbs, Ken Ralston, and Richard Williams (1988) Ken Ralston (1989/90) Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993) John Bruno (1994) Stan Parks (1995) Volker Engel, Clay Pinney, Douglas Smith, and Joe Viskocil (1996) Phil Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., John Richardson (1997) Volker Engel, Patrick Tatopoulos, Karen E. Goulekas, and Clay Pinney (1998) Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren, and Scott Squires (1999) Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, and Stan Parks (2000) Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri (2001) Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll, and Ben Snow (2002) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003) John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004) Joe Letteri, Richard Taylor, Christian Rivers, and Brian Van't Hul (2005) John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006) Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl, and John Frazier (2007) Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, and Paul J. Franklin (2008) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009) Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Paul J. Franklin, and Peter Bebb (2010) Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett (2011) Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick (2012) Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013) Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014) Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould (2015)

Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.

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