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).
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Filmography
Acting
34 credits
Forrest Gump
Alice in Wonderland
Back to the Future Part III
Cast Away
Men in Black II
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Contact
Men in Black 3
Back to the Future Part II
The Polar Express
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Death Becomes Her
LIGHT & MAGIC
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Beowulf
Phenomenon
Dreams
The Rocketeer
The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Cocoon
The American President
The Golden Child
Jumanji
America's Sweethearts
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Star Wars: Greatest Moments
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
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