Dennis Muren
- Visual effects
- November 1, 1946 · Glendale, California, USA
Biography
Dennis Muren, A.S.C. (born November 1, 1946) is an American film visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked on the films of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron, among others, and has won nine Oscars in total: eight for Best Visual Effects and a Technical Achievement Academy Award. The Visual Effects Society has called him "a perpetual student, teacher, innovator, and mentor." He has been identified as "a pioneer in bringing a new wave of visual effects films to the public, opening the doors for screenwriters and directors to tell stories never before possible with a new realism through the use of his skills in cinematic arts and advanced technologies." According to Spielberg, Muren "set the example at Industrial Light & Magic for visual effects excellence with effects that add strong, appropriate emotion to a shot and fit seamlessly into a movie." Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Muren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Shrinkage: The Making of Innerspace · Self
- A Celebration of Tenacity · Self, Thanks
- Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals · Self, Thanks
- LIGHT & MAGIC · Self
- In Search of Tomorrow · Self
- Mad God · Associate Producer
- Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters · Self
- T2: Reprogramming The Terminator · Self
- Spielberg · Self
- Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren · Self
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens · Creative Consultant
- Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex · Self
- Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan · Self
- Side by Side · Self
- Super 8 · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Return to Jurassic Park · Self
- Bob Burns' Hollywood Haloween · Self
- Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible · Self
- Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad · Self
- Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers · Self
- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 · Self
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 · Self
- The Pixar Story · Self
- Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet · Self
- The Sci-Fi Boys · Self
- War of the Worlds · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection · Self
- The Making of 'Hulk' · Self
- Hulk · Visual Effects Supervisor
- No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones · Visual Effects Supervisor
- George Lucas: Creating an Empire · Self
- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome · Self
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence · Visual Effects Supervisor
- The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' · Self
- From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking · Self
- Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs · Self
- Crossing the Frontier: Making The Last Starfighter · Self
- From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic · Self
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Deconstructing Harry · Creative Consultant
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park · Visual Effects Supervisor
- The Making of 'The Lost World' · Self
- Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery · Self
- The Harryhausen Chronicles · Self
- The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' · Self
- The Making of 'Jurassic Park' · Self
- Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects · Self
- Jurassic Park · Visual Effects Supervisor
- The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' · Self
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day · Visual Effects Supervisor
- The Abyss · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Ghostbusters II · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Willow: The Making of an Adventure · Self
- Innerspace · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Young Sherlock Holmes · Visual Effects Supervisor
- The Ewok Adventure · Special Effects
- The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' · Self
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · Visual Effects Supervisor
- From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga · Self
- Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi · Self
- Return of the Jedi · Visual Effects Supervisor
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Dragonslayer · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Raiders of the Lost Ark · Nazi Spy on the Airplane (uncredited)
- SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back · Self, Additional Photography
- Film '72 · Self
- Equinox · Associate Producer, Special Effects
- Raiders of the Stone Ring · Writer
- The Equinox ... A Journey into the Supernatural · Producer, Special Effects
- Dancing Beer Bottles · Animation, Director