
John Mangia
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 Perf…
Behind the camera
- 2025PULSEVisual Effects Supervisor10 ep.
- 2022The OfferVisual Effects Supervisor10 ep.
- 2020The Queen's GambitVisual Effects Supervisor7 ep.
- 2019The CodeVisual Effects Supervisor12 ep.
- 2018SweetbitterCompositing Supervisor4 ep.
- 2016High MaintenanceCompositing Supervisor10 ep.
- 2016OutcastDigital Compositor, Visual Effects Supervisor4 ep.
- 2016VinylDigital Compositor1 ep.
- 2016BillionsVisual Effects Supervisor8 ep.
- 2015Flesh and BoneDigital Compositor3 ep.
- 2015BlindspotCompositing Supervisor, Digital Compositor21 ep.
- 2015PowersDigital Compositor2 ep.
- 2014The LeftoversCompositing Artist3 ep.
- 2014PowerDigital Compositor4 ep.
- 2013The BlacklistDigital Compositor6 ep.