Personal Info
Known For
Visual Effects
Birthdate
1946-11-01 (Age: 80)
Place of Birth
Glendale, California, USA
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.
Filmography (43)
Shrinkage: The Making of Innerspace
2026A Celebration of Tenacity
2024
Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals
2024
In Search of Tomorrow
2022
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
2019
T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
2017
Spielberg
2017Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren
2017
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
2013
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012
Side by Side
2012
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
