
Dennis Muren
Visual Effects
Born: November 1, 1946 (79 years old)
Place of birth: 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.
Filmography (38)
- Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983, ★ 8.8)
- The Sci-Fi Boys (2006, ★ 7)
- Side by Side (2012, ★ 7.2)
- The Pixar Story (2007, ★ 7.6)
- Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex (2015, ★ 7.2)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, ★ 7.9)
- The Harryhausen Chronicles (1997, ★ 6.8)
- Spielberg (2017, ★ 7.6)
- Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible (2010, ★ 6.6)
- Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters (2019, ★ 7.5)
- Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2012, ★ 7.4)
- From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic (1999, ★ 7.9)
- Return to Jurassic Park (2011, ★ 6.6)
- In Search of Tomorrow (2022, ★ 6.6)
- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001, ★ 6.5)
- T2: Reprogramming The Terminator (2017, ★ 7.4)
- LIGHT & MAGIC (2022, ★ 7.8)
- Mad God (2021, ★ 6.8)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, ★ 7.1)
- Deconstructing Harry (1997, ★ 7.3)
- Jurassic Park (1993, ★ 8)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, ★ 8.1)
- Return of the Jedi (1983, ★ 7.9)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985, ★ 6.7)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, ★ 7.3)
- Ghostbusters II (1989, ★ 6.6)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, ★ 7.5)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, ★ 7.3)
- Innerspace (1987, ★ 6.8)
- Dragonslayer (1981, ★ 6.5)