The VFX veteran gets the nod as her ongoing leadership has bolstered company’s growth in innovation and ground-breaking visual effects, including its hugely successful, critically acclaimed animated feature ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.’
Sony Pictures Imageworks announced the promotion of Michelle Grady to President seven years after she joined the company in the Vancouver headquarters. According to the VFX and animation company, Grady’s leadership has contributed to the success of the company and its recognition as a leader in innovation and ground-breaking visual effects in the industry – including first-of-its-kind CG features and large-scale live-action VFX projects.
Before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks, Grady spent 23 years in Vancouver's visual effects and post-production industry, where her career grew alongside the expanding film production business in the city. She joined Imageworks from visual effects studio MPC, where she was head of film. Before MPC, Grady was VP and general manager at Technicolor.
The success of Sony Pictures Animation’s visually spectacular Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which gained wide critical acclaim and praise from worldwide audiences (earning nearly $690 million globally), can be attributed in part to Grady’s leadership and talented team.
With the studio’s headquarters in Vancouver, an office in Culver City, and its recent expansion into Montreal as well as a growing repertoire of films – including Academy Award-winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the Academy Award-nominated films The Mitchells vs. the Machines and The Sea Beast, and Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3 – Grady is positioned to further Imageworks' growth and continue to break new ground.
Source: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network.
