Dennis Muren
Visual Effects
1946-11-01 · Glendale, California, USA
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 · Movie
A Celebration of Tenacity
2024 · Movie
Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals
2024 · Movie
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022 · Series
In Search of Tomorrow
2022 · Movie
Mad God
2021 · Movie
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
2019 · Movie
T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
2017 · Movie
Spielberg
2017 · Movie
Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren
2017 · Movie
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · Movie
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015 · Movie
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012 · Movie
Side by Side
2012 · Movie
Super 8
2011 · Movie
Return to Jurassic Park
2011 · Movie
Bob Burns' Hollywood Haloween
2011 · Movie
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
2010 · Movie
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008 · Movie
Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
2007 · Movie
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007 · Movie
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007 · Movie
The Pixar Story
2007 · Movie
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
2006 · Movie
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006 · Movie
War of the Worlds
2005 · Movie
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005 · Movie
Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
2005 · Movie
The Making of 'Hulk'
2003 · Movie
Hulk
2003 · Movie
No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2003 · Movie
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 · Movie
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 · Movie
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Movie
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Movie
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
2001 · Movie
Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs
1999 · Movie
Crossing the Frontier: Making The Last Starfighter
1999 · Movie
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
1999 · Movie
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999 · Movie
Deconstructing Harry
1997 · Movie
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Movie
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 · Movie
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
1997 · Movie
The Harryhausen Chronicles
1997 · Movie
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996 · Movie
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995 · Movie
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994 · Movie
Jurassic Park
1993 · Movie
The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'
1991 · Movie
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Movie
The Abyss
1989 · Movie
Ghostbusters II
1989 · Movie
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
1988 · Movie
Innerspace
1987 · Movie
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985 · Movie
The Ewok Adventure
1984 · Movie
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
1984 · Movie
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 · Movie
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga
1983 · Movie
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi
1983 · Movie
Return of the Jedi
1983 · Movie
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Movie
Dragonslayer
1981 · Movie
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Movie
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
Equinox
1970 · Movie
Raiders of the Stone Ring
1968 · Movie
The Equinox ... A Journey into the Supernatural
1967 · Movie
Dancing Beer Bottles
1965 · Movie