
Ken Ralston
Biography
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.
Filmografi
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan2012 · Self
Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air1991 · Self
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland2010 · Himself
Star Wars: Greatest Moments2015 · Self
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy1990 · Self
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic1999 · Self
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town1988 · Self – Visual Effects Supervisor
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump1994 · Self
When Star Wars Ruled the World2004 · Self
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Harrison Ford
Steven Spielberg
Tim Burton
James Cameron
Robert Zemeckis
John Lasseter
Ray Harryhausen
Rick McCallum
Dennis Muren
Steve Gawley
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