Stargate Adds Award-Winning Production Designer And VFX Chief To New Series » GateWorld

The new Stargate series is recruiting some big names to its roster of talent, naming a pair of award-winning artists to lead the production design and visual effects departments. Nathan Crowley has joined the team as Stargate’s production designer, series creator Martin Gero tells GateWorld. Crowley is an Academy Award-winning production designer whose career includes a long-time collaboration with filmmaker Christopher Nolan — from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight to The Prestige, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Tenet. Crowley has earned seven Academy Award nominations and several BAFTA nominations for Best Production Design, making him one of the most-nominated craftspeople without a statue — until 2025, when he and set decorator Lee Sandales took home both the Oscar and BAFTA for Jon M. Chu’s Wicked. Leading the VFX team is Mohen Leo, whose work as a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic’s London and Singapore effects houses has included The Martian, Ant-Man, and Deepwater Horizon. Leo was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (with Neil Corbould, Hal Hickel, and John Knoll), as part of the team that accomplished some 1,700 VFX shots for the movie. On television, he subsequently served as visual effects supervisor on Season 2 of Lucasfilm’s Andor, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie. His Star Wars credits also extend to video games, as creative director for ILMxLAB’s work on the Star Wars VR series Vader Immortal, for which he created the story.