Person
Owen Paterson
Art
Biography
Owen Paterson is an Australian production designer who was chiefly responsible for the design and look of The Matrix series of movies. He grew up in Western Australia and now resides in Sydney. Following The Matrix, his collaboration with Lana and Lilly Wachowski continued with the films V for Vendetta and Speed Racer. Prior to working on The Matrix, Paterson had worked on Australian films such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with director Stephan Elliott (for which he won an AFI Award) and returned to work with Elliott on Welcome to Woop Woop. Paterson worked on the 2014 version of Godzilla with director Gareth Edwards. He returned to the franchise on Godzilla vs. Kong in 2021. In 2015, Paterson was the production designer for Marvel Studios' Captain America: Civil War and worked for eleven months on the film in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Berlin. After that film's premiere, he called for the Australian government to institute a formal system of film production incentives to attract more big-budget international productions to film in Australia. Paterson was interviewed in 2008 about his work on creating digital worlds for The Matrix and Speed Racer as part of a short film project that was part of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's long-running Virtual Worlds exhibition. In 2014, he was one of five film designers interviewed for the documentary series Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction, which aired on BBC Two. Description above from the Wikipedia article Owen Paterson (production designer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
The Matrix
Production Design
Captain America: Civil War
Production Design
Godzilla vs. Kong
Production Design
The Matrix Revolutions
Production Design
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Production Designer
The Matrix Reloaded
Production Design
V for Vendetta
Production Design
Godzilla
Production Design
Play Dirty
Production Design
Ticket to Paradise
Production Design
Filmography
- 2025Play DirtyProduction Design
- 2022Ticket to ParadiseProduction Design
- 2021Godzilla vs. KongProduction Design
- 2017Jumanji: Welcome to the JungleProduction Designer
- 2016Captain America: Civil WarProduction Design
- 2016Gods of EgyptProduction Design
- 2014GodzillaProduction Design
- 2014The Real History of Science FictionHimself
- 2011The Green HornetProduction Design
- 2008Speed Racer: Car FuSelf
- 2008Speed RacerProduction Design
- 2006V for VendettaProduction Design
- 2004The Matrix Reloaded: Car ChaseSelf
- 2004The Burly Man Chronicles
- 2004The Matrix RecalibratedSelf
- 2004The Matrix Revolutions: Super Big Mini ModelsSelf
- 2003The Matrix RevolutionsProduction Design
- 2003The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-LoadSelf
- 2003Making 'Enter the Matrix'Self
- 2003The Matrix ReloadedProduction Design
- 2003Final Flight of the OsirisProduction Design
- 2001The Matrix RevisitedSelf - Production Designer
- 2000Red PlanetProduction Design
- 2000Noriega: God's FavoriteProduction Design
- 1999Making "The Matrix"Self
- 1999The MatrixProduction Design
- 1998Welcome to Woop WoopProduction Design
- 1996The BeastProduction Design
- 1996Race the SunProduction Design
- 1994The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertProduction Design
- 1989MinnamurraProduction Design
- 1987The Place at the CoastProduction Design
- 1984The Coolangatta GoldArt Direction
- 1984Stanley: Every Home Should Have OneArt Direction
- 1981The SurvivorProperty Buyer
- 1980HarlequinAssistant Art Director
- —SubversionProduction Design
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