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John Mangia
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John Mangia is a Los Angeles-based Visual Effects Supervisor.
He served as Additional VFX Supervisor for Marvel Studios on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Before that, he was the Overall VFX Supervisor for the Paramount+ limited series The Offer, supervising five vendors and nearly 800 VFX shots. His work on the series included the creation of highly detailed, full-CG environments, digital crowds, and vehicles to faithfully recreate 1970s New York City and the world of The Godfather.
Mangia also served as Overall VFX Supervisor on the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit, directed by Scott Frank and executive produced by Bill Horberg. His contributions included the visualisation of Beth Harmon’s chess hallucinations and the transformation of present-day Berlin into 1960s settings such as Paris, Moscow, Mexico City, and Kentucky.
His additional credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s Dreamland, and The Code from CBS Television Studios.
In 2014, he was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial for the Sony PlayStation spot Perfect Day. His portfolio also includes major studio features such as Men in Black 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. He served as an independent VFX consultant on the Academy Award-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild and has contributed to numerous television commercials and episodic series for networks including HBO, Cinemax, NBC, and Starz—frequently leading creative look development for complex sequences.
Mangia holds a Master of Science in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University, with additional studies at Rochester Institute of Technology and Rider University. He has pursued specialized training in creature design at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts. In addition to his industry work, he has lectured on advanced visual effects and computer graphics topics at New York University and the New York Film Academy.
He served as Additional VFX Supervisor for Marvel Studios on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Before that, he was the Overall VFX Supervisor for the Paramount+ limited series The Offer, supervising five vendors and nearly 800 VFX shots. His work on the series included the creation of highly detailed, full-CG environments, digital crowds, and vehicles to faithfully recreate 1970s New York City and the world of The Godfather.
Mangia also served as Overall VFX Supervisor on the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit, directed by Scott Frank and executive produced by Bill Horberg. His contributions included the visualisation of Beth Harmon’s chess hallucinations and the transformation of present-day Berlin into 1960s settings such as Paris, Moscow, Mexico City, and Kentucky.
His additional credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s Dreamland, and The Code from CBS Television Studios.
In 2014, he was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial for the Sony PlayStation spot Perfect Day. His portfolio also includes major studio features such as Men in Black 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. He served as an independent VFX consultant on the Academy Award-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild and has contributed to numerous television commercials and episodic series for networks including HBO, Cinemax, NBC, and Starz—frequently leading creative look development for complex sequences.
Mangia holds a Master of Science in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University, with additional studies at Rochester Institute of Technology and Rider University. He has pursued specialized training in creature design at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts. In addition to his industry work, he has lectured on advanced visual effects and computer graphics topics at New York University and the New York Film Academy.
John Mangia Filmography
| 2025 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps · as Vfx Supervisor |
| 2025 | Pulse (2025) (TV Series) · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2024 | Shell · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · as Vfx Supervisor |
| 2022 | The Offer (TV Series) · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2020 | The Queen's Gambit (TV Series) · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2019 | Dreamland · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2019 | Long Shot · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2019 | Windows on the World · as Compositing Supervisor |
| 2019 | The Code (TV Series) · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2018 | Zero · as Compositing Artist |
| 2018 | White Boy Rick · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2018 | Sweetbitter (TV Series) · as Compositing Supervisor |
| 2017 | First Reformed · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2017 | All Saints · as Compositing Supervisor |
| 2016 | High Maintenance (2016) (TV Series) · as Compositing Supervisor |
| 2016 | Outcast (TV Series) · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2016 | Vinyl (TV Series) · as Digital Compositor |
| 2016 | Hail, Caesar! · as Digital Compositor |
| 2016 | Billions (TV Series) · as Visual Effects Supervisor |
| 2015 | Flesh and Bone (TV Series) · as Digital Compositor |
| 2015 | Blindspot (TV Series) · as Digital Compositor |
| 2015 | The Longest Ride · as Digital Compositor |
| 2015 | Run All Night · as Digital Compositor |
| 2015 | Powers (2015) (TV Series) · as Digital Compositor |
| 2014 | The Leftovers (TV Series) · as Compositing Artist |
| 2014 | Power (TV Series) · as Digital Compositor |
| 2013 | The Blacklist (TV Series) · as Digital Compositor |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild · as Compositing Artist |
| 2012 | Men in Black³ · as Digital Compositor |
| 2011 | Tower Heist · as Digital Compositor |
| 2011 | Green Lantern · as Compositing Artist |
| 2011 | The Adjustment Bureau · as Digital Compositor |
| 2011 | I Am Number Four · as Digital Compositor |
| 2010 | Jack Goes Boating · as Digital Compositor |
| 2010 | Act of Vengeance · as Digital Compositor |
| 2010 | Black Swan · as Digital Compositor |
| 2010 | Going the Distance · as Digital Compositor |
| 2010 | Step Up 3D · as Digital Compositor |
| 2010 | Remember Me · as Digital Compositor |
| 2009 | Did You Hear About the Morgans? · as Digital Compositor |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control · as Digital Compositor |
| 2009 | Duplicity · as Digital Compositor |
| 2009 | Brooklyn's Finest · as Digital Compositor |