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Paul Stephen Boyington is a Prime Time Emmy Award wining visual effects supervisor.He has worked as a Director, Producer, 2nd Unit Director, Visual Effects Supervisor, Title Designer and Screenwriter.

He won a Prime Time Emmy Award for his visual effects work on the Primetime CBS show “The Last Halloween”. He was also nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for title design for "Friday the 13th - The Series,” as well as a nomination for the Canadian Television Gemini Award, (Canadian Emmy), for his visual effects work on the “The Outer Limits” television series, for which he was the visual effects supervisor. His TV credits include the “The Steve Harvey Show," "War of the Worlds," "Key West," “The Outer Limits,” and "Friday the 13th - The Series”. Paul directed the episode “Perchance to Dream," for the dramatic television series, “Monsters“.

On the feature side, his visual effects supervision and title design credits include “Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy’s Revenge," "Surviving the Game," “Bulletproof," “Ironweed," “Iron Eagle III” “Invaders from Mars” and the iconic Tom Hanks’ comedy "Dragnet". He was the 2nd Unit Director on the films, “NYC: Tornado Terror“ and “Nature Unleashed:Earthquake”. One of the highlights of Paul Boyington’s career was to design and then supervise and produce the visual effects production for the opening title sequence, as well as supervise and produce all other visual effects for Tim Burton’s feature film, “Ed Wood”. Another highlight was to supervise and produce the visual effects for the “dream sequences” for the acclaimed film “Eve’s Bayou," starring Samuel L. Jackson. For over twenty five years Paul ran his own visual effects studio and commercial production company, where he directed and produced commercials, music videos and supervised visual effects projects, for the film, television, music and advertising industry. Currently he is writing screenplays and producing and directing content for film and television.