Sony Pictures Imageworks Promotes Michelle Grady To Studio President

Michelle Grady has been promoted to president of Sony Pictures Imageworks, working out of the company’s Vancouver offices. News of the appointment was announced by Deadline.

Grady has been with Imageworks for seven years and recently worked on the studio’s box office hit sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Other titles worked on by the studio during her time as an executive include Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Oscar nominees The Mitchells vs. the Machines and The Sea Beast, an episode of Love, Death & Robots, and several Marvel superhero films.

In addition to her role at Sony, Grady is the current chair of the Animation & VFX Alliance of British Columbia, vice chair of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC, and an executive committee member of Creative BC.

A 20-plus-year vfx and post-production veteran, Grady previously served as head of film at MPC, working on titles such as Suicide Squad, Godzilla, Maleficent, and Life of Pi. Before that, she was vp and general manager at Technicolor, where she headed a 35mm film laboratory, digital post-production, and vfx divisions.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairman and CEO Tom Rothman sent a letter to employees announcing Grady’s appointment, which read:

Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to share that Michelle Grady has been promoted to President of Sony Pictures Imageworks.

Under Michelle’s leadership for the last seven years, Imageworks has become the most innovative and ground-breaking visual effects and animation facility in the world, renowned for its work on first-of-its-kind CG features and large-scale live-action VFX projects. Michelle and her talented team contributed greatly to the phenomenal success of Sony Pictures Animation’s visually spectacular Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which has won the hearts of critics and audiences around the world and earned nearly $690 million globally.

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 – Michelle is well positioned to further Imageworks’ remarkable growth and continue to break new ground.

Please join me in congratulating Michelle.

Tom