Sara Bennett is a British visual effects artist who won a 2016 Academy Award for the best visual effects in the film Ex-Machina. She is a co-founder of Milk, a visual effects studio headquartered in London.
From a young age, Sara has been fascinated by the visual effects industry and was particularly inspired by Horror Movies.[2] In a recent Women in VFX interview,[3] she reflects on her journey; from Runner, progressing up the ranks via the compositing route to leadership roles and is now Chief Creative Officer/VFX Supervisor at Milk, a VFX studio she co-founded in 2013[4] based in London.
Bennett's first film credit[5] was on the 1998 film Babe: Pig in the City where she worked in digital preparation at Mill Film.
She became the second ever female VFX Oscar winner[6] when she received a 2016 Academy Award for the best visual effects in Alex Garland’s feature Ex-Machina, along with Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington. Sara also received a 2016 BAFTA Film Award nomination for Ex-Machina.[7]
Sara has also collaborated with Bythewood on her previous project for Netflix’s The Old Guard, delivering the entire project during lockdown in 2020.[8]
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