BCFE Graduate wins Special Effects Academy Award at the BAFTAs and recieves Oscar Nomination

Richie Baneham wins Special Visual Effects Academy Award at the BAFTAs

Irish animator Richard Baneham and his colleagues won big at the British Academy Film Awards last night.

The Academy award-winning animator and his team collected the award for special visual effects on blockbuster film Avatar: The Way of Water.

Mr Baneham, who is from Tallaght, has worked on some of the world’s biggest movie productions including The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Chronicles of Narnia and the Avatar franchise.

He studied the trade in Ballyfermot College of Further Education before moving to Los Angeles. Not alone has he and his team won a BAFTA but he has also been nominated for an OSCAR.

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Avatar: The Way of Water’s Richard Baneham – an Oscar winner for his work on the original movie – is among the Best Visual Effects nominees. Baneham originally trained as an animator in BCFE.