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Richard Edlund & Dennis Muren. These two worked at ILM during its heyday, worked on all 3 original Star Wars films & are legends in their field. It’s not often we have two VFX legends go head to head on the same franchise.
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 . [ 1 ]
Jul 29, 2022 · Kasdan interviews many of the founding members who become visual effects icons in their own right, including John Dykstra, who pioneered the motion control technology that made realistic space...
Richard Edlund, ASC (born December 6, 1940) is an American visual effects artist and inventor. He was a founding member of Industrial Light & Magic, having already founded Pignose amplifiers, and later co-founded Boss Film Studios and DuMonde VFX.
YearTitleContributionDirector2015VFX supervisor2012VFX supervisor2012VFX supervisor2007VFX supervisor- History of The Best Visual Effects Oscar
- Requirements and Eligibility
- Notable Winners
A special award for visual effects was given at the very first Academy Awards in 1929. Roy Pomeroy won for Best Engineering Effects for the 1927 film Wings (which also received the first Academy Award for Best Picture). However, an Oscar for visual effects was not granted again until the 11th Academy Awards in 1939 for the adventure film Spawn of t...
Any feature that qualifies under the standard Academy Awards rules is eligible in the Best Visual Effects category, and all eligible films appear on a nominations ballot that is voted on by the Executive Committee of the Visual Effects Branch of the Academy to narrow the field to a maximum of 20 films. A film's visual effects are judged on the basi...
Dennis Muren has received the most Oscars for Visual Effects with eight wins. He won six of his Oscars competitively (for 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1987's Innerspace, 1989's The Abyss, 1991'sTerminator 2: Judgment Day, and 1993's Jurassic Park) and two as Special Achievement Awards (for 1980's T...
Aug 4, 2022 · Starting his own company — Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) — and staffing it with upstarts like John Dykstra, Dennis Muren, Richard Edlund, Phil Tippett, Ken Ralston, and Joe Johnston,...
Jul 29, 2022 · The Light & Magic episodes feature incredible archival footage of George Lucas and the first years of ILM in Van Nuys, California, as well as interviews across the four decades of the company with VFX legends including John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Joe Johnston, Phil Tippett, and many more from the current era of the company.
