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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Filmografia
- LIGHT & MAGIC · In persona
- The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek · In persona
- Alice attraverso lo specchio · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Wars: Greatest Moments · In persona
- Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan · In persona
- Men in Black 3 · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland · In persona
- Alice in Wonderland · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- La leggenda di Beowulf · Visual Effects Design Consultant
- Polar Express · VFX Supervisor
- When Star Wars Ruled the World · In persona
- Men in Black II · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- I perfetti innamorati · Visual Effects Coordinator
- Cast Away · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Wars - Da Guerre stellari a Guerre stellari - La storia della Industrial Lighth Magic · In persona
- Contact · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- Phenomenon · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Jumanji · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Il presidente - Una storia d'amore · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump · In persona, Ringraziamenti
- Forrest Gump · Visual Effects Supervisor
- La morte ti fa bella · Second Unit Director, Visual Effects Supervisor
- Le avventure di Rocketeer · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air · In persona
- The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy · In persona
- Ritorno al futuro - Parte III · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Sogni · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Ritorno al futuro - Parte II · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town · In persona
- Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Il bambino d'oro · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek IV - Rotta verso la Terra · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Cocoon - L'energia dell'universo · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek III - Alla ricerca di Spock · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek II - L'ira di Khan · Visual Effects Supervisor