Ken Ralston
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Kenneth Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, visual effects supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. In 1976, Dennis Muren hired him at Industrial Light & Magic to help George Lucas create the effects for Star Wars. He remained at ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president. Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis. Ralston has won five Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Academy Award for the visual effects in Return of the Jedi (1983), and regular awards for his work on Cocoon (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992) and Forrest Gump (1994). He was nominated three more times for Dragonslayer (1981), Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Ralston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- LIGHT & MAGIC · En personne
- The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek · En personne
- Alice de l'autre côté du miroir · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Wars: Greatest Moments · En personne
- Ray Harryhausen : Le Titan des effets spéciaux · En personne
- Men in Black III · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland · En personne
- Alice au Pays des Merveilles · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- La Légende de Beowulf · Visual Effects Design Consultant
- Le Pôle express · VFX Supervisor
- When Star Wars Ruled the World · En personne
- Men in Black II · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- Couple de stars · Visual Effects Coordinator
- Seul au monde · Visual Effects Supervisor
- From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic · En personne
- Contact · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- Phénomène · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Jumanji · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Le président et Miss Wade · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump · En personne, Remerciements
- Forrest Gump · Visual Effects Supervisor
- La mort vous va si bien · Second Unit Director, Visual Effects Supervisor
- Les Aventures de Rocketeer · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air · En personne
- The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy · En personne
- Retour vers le futur III · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Rêves · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Retour vers le futur II · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town · En personne
- Qui veut la peau de Roger Rabbit ? · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Golden Child : L'Enfant sacré du Tibet · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek IV : Retour sur Terre · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Cocoon · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek III : À la recherche de Spock · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek II : La Colère de Khan · Visual Effects Supervisor