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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-10-20 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Janek Sirrs

Biography:

Janek Sirrs (born October 20, 1965) is a visual effects artist who is known for his work in films such as The Matrix, Batman Begins, The Avengers, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Sirrs has won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects once for The Matrix, shared with John Gaeta, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum, with a further two nominations for Iron Man 2, shared with Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, and Ged Wright but lost to Inception, and The Avengers, shared with Dan Sudick, Jeff White, and Guy Williams but lost to Life of Pi.

Known For

Acting

2014

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self - Production Visual Effects Supervisor

2004

2001

The Matrix Revisited as Self - Associate VFX Supervisor

1999

Visual Effects

2024

Wolfs as Visual Effects Supervisor

2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Visual Effects Supervisor

2019

Spider-Man: Far From Home as Visual Effects Supervisor

2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming as Visual Effects Supervisor

2015

Terminator Genisys as Visual Effects Supervisor

2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Visual Effects Supervisor

2012

The Avengers as Visual Effects Supervisor

2010

Iron Man 2 as Visual Effects Supervisor

2007

I Am Legend as Visual Effects Supervisor

2005

Batman Begins as Visual Effects Supervisor

2004

The Ladykillers as Visual Effects Supervisor

2003

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Visual Effects Supervisor
The Matrix Reloaded as Visual Effects Supervisor

2001

The Man Who Wasn't There as Visual Effects Supervisor

1999

The Matrix as Visual Effects Supervisor

1998

The Naked Man as Visual Effects
Mighty Joe Young as Visual Effects
Without Limits as Visual Effects
Six Days Seven Nights as Visual Effects
The Truman Show as Digital Compositor
The Big Lebowski as Visual Effects Supervisor

1997

Gattaca as Visual Effects
Con Air as Visual Effects
Anaconda as Visual Effects
Jungle 2 Jungle as Visual Effects

1996

My Fellow Americans as Visual Effects
Alaska as Visual Effects
Executive Decision as Visual Effects
The Arrival as Visual Effects
Before and After as Visual Effects

1995

Steal Big Steal Little as Visual Effects
Strange Days as Visual Effects
Waterworld as Visual Effects
Dolores Claiborne as Visual Effects
The Quick and the Dead as Visual Effects

1994

Immortal Beloved as Compositing Artist
The Hudsucker Proxy as Digital Compositor

1993

Needful Things as Visual Effects
Heart and Souls as Visual Effects
Map of the Human Heart as Visual Effects

1992

The Muppet Christmas Carol as Visual Effects
1492: Conquest of Paradise as Visual Effects

Crew

1998

Doctor Dolittle as Digital Effects Supervisor

1997

The Borrowers as Digital Supervisor
Liar Liar as Digital Supervisor

1996

Matilda as Digital Supervisor