Overview
Dennis Muren
Known For
Lost in Time: Unearthing the Primevals
Documentary about the 30-year long process of David Allen's The...
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion...
T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
This retrospective documentary focuses on the cast and crew reminiscing...
Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren
Visual effects artist Dennis Muren discusses the legacy of Ray...
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
The Frankenstein Complex takes a historical as well as a...
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
Documentary about the invention of MORF, the program for morphing,...
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.