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Ken Ralston

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Jumanji

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Forrest Gump

Visual Effects Supervisor

Cast Away

Visual Effects Supervisor

Back to the Future Part II

Visual Effects Supervisor

Death Becomes Her

Visual Effects Supervisor

Back to the Future Part III

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Visual Effects Supervisor

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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

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When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability

What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...

8 films

It was Miss Scarlet, in the cinema...

Celebrating Lesley Ann Warren's 80th birthday with a journey through board game adaptations, from the witty whodunit of Clue to the explosive naval warfare of B...

8 films

When Worlds Collide: The Magic of Live-Action Animation

From Disney's pioneering blend to modern masterpieces, explore films that seamlessly merge reality and animation, celebrating the creative spark when two worlds...

8 films

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