Dennis Muren
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.
Movie Appearances
Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
as Self
2007
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
as Self
1996
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
as Self
1997
The Sci-Fi Boys
as Self
2006
Side by Side
as Self
2012
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
as Self
2005
Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren
as Himself
2017
The Pixar Story
as Self
2007
Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs
as Self
1999
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
as Self
2008
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
as Self
2015
Raiders of the Lost Ark
as Nazi Spy on the Airplane (uncredited)
1981
Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals
as Self
2024
A Celebration of Tenacity
as Self
2024
The Harryhausen Chronicles
as Self
1997
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
as Self
2001
Spielberg
as Self
2017
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
as Self
2010
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
as Self
1995
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
2007
