Name
Owen Paterson
Known For
Art
Birthday
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
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Known For
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Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group...
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Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act...
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The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the ci...
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Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never...
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The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo ...
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A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt....
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In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla an...
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In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known onl...
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Expert thief Parker gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must ...
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Divorced couple Georgia and David find themselves on a shared mission: they team up and tr...
- 2001 The Matrix Revisited as Self - Production Designer
- 2004 The Burly Man Chronicles
- 2004 The Matrix Recalibrated as Self
- 1999 Making "The Matrix" as Self
- 2004 The Matrix Revolutions: Super Big Mini Models as Self
- 2004 The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase as Self
- 2003 The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load as Self
- 2003 Making 'Enter the Matrix' as Self
- 2008 Speed Racer: Car Fu as Self
- 2014 The Real History of Science Fiction ( 1 episode ) as Himself
