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Dennis Muren

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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.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Hulk

Visual Effects Supervisor

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Visual Effects Supervisor

Jurassic Park

Visual Effects Supervisor

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Visual Effects Supervisor

Ghostbusters II

Visual Effects Supervisor

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Weight of the Cape: Inheriting a Legacy You Never Asked For

Before the multiverse had a use for her, Kara Zor-El's first outing wasn't framed as destiny, it was framed as a mistake to fix. She loses the Omegahedron, the...

8 films

The DVDs That Changed Everything

In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...

10 films

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