John C. Kilkenny

John C. Kilkenny

John Kilkenny is head of the Visual effects department at 20th Century Fox, where he is Executive Vice President. This is the division responsible for the visual effects on feature films made by the studio’s production units, TCF (twentieth century fox), Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic.

Kilkenny oversaw the effects on "Night at the Museum", ', "Live Free or Die Hard", ',cite news
author=R.J. Carter |title=DVD Review: Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer
url=http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=5936 |work=The Trades
date=September 30 2007] [cite news
author=Scott Bowles; Mike Snider |title=After 40 years, Silver Surfer still has luster
work=USA Today |date=June 13 2007 |pages=3D] and many other Fox “event” movies.

Previously, he was an associate producer/visual effects producer on "Garfield" and on "I, Robot", which earned an Academy Award® nomination for best achievement in visual effects. Before that, he was a freelance visual effects producer on the films "Dr. Dolittle 2", "Daredevil", "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Star Trek Insurrection".

Kilkenny began his career in motion picture visual effects at the effects house Digital Domain, where he became head producer in the company’s commercial division. He has also worked as a freelance commercials producer (for clients Budweiser, Toyota, Chevrolet, and many others) and sportscaster at the NBC affiliate in El Paso, Texas. Kilkenny studied Radio/Television at the University of Arizona. He interned at the NBC affiliate in Tucson, and was a sports producer at the local ABC station.

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