Dennis Muren

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Visual Effects

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

• Shrinkage: The Making of Innerspace (2026)
• A Celebration of Tenacity (2024)
• Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals (2024)
• In Search of Tomorrow (2022)
• Mad God (2021)
• Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters (2019)
• T2: Reprogramming The Terminator (2017)
• Spielberg (2017)
• Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren (2017)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex (2015)
• Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2012)
• Side by Side (2012)
• Super 8 (2011)
• Return to Jurassic Park (2011)
• Bob Burns' Hollywood Haloween (2011)
• Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible (2010)
• Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad (2008)
• Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers (2007)
• Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007)
• Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007)
• The Pixar Story (2007)
• Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet (2006)
• The Sci-Fi Boys (2006)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection (2005)
• The Making of 'Hulk' (2003)
• Hulk (2003)
• No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects (2003)
• Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
• George Lucas: Creating an Empire (2002)
• R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001)
• From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking (2001)
• Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs (1999)
• Crossing the Frontier: Making The Last Starfighter (1999)
• From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic (1999)
• Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
• Deconstructing Harry (1997)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997)
• Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery (1997)
• The Harryhausen Chronicles (1997)
• The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' (1996)
• The Making of 'Jurassic Park' (1995)
• Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects (1994)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (1991)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Willow: The Making of an Adventure (1988)
• Innerspace (1987)
• Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
• The Ewok Adventure (1984)
• The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (1983)
• Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Dragonslayer (1981)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Equinox (1970)
• Raiders of the Stone Ring (1968)
• The Equinox ... A Journey into the Supernatural (1967)
• Dancing Beer Bottles (1965)