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Ken Ralston

Ken Ralston

Visual Effects
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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.

Participates in

  • Beowulf
  • Contact
  • Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
  • The American President
  • Forrest Gump
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass
  • Cocoon
  • Phenomenon
  • Back to the Future Part II
  • The Polar Express
  • Cast Away
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Men in Black 3
  • Men in Black II
  • Jumanji
  • Back to the Future Part III
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • The Rocketeer
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  • The Golden Child
  • America's Sweethearts

Acts in

  • The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
  • Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
  • When Star Wars Ruled the World
  • Star Wars: Greatest Moments
  • Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air
  • Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
  • From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
  • Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland