# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zoran-perisic
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:54:33.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zoran-perisic"
name: "Zoran Perisic"
slug: "zoran-perisic"
description: "Zoran Perišić is a Serbian-American visual effects artist and film director. He is best known for creating the \"Zoptic\" front projection process, which was invented to achieve the flying scenes in the 1978 film Superman. For his work in Superman, he won a Special Achievement Academy Award and a BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. He was also nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film Return to Oz."
tagline: "Serbian-American visual effects artist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-03-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.87
  momentum:             1.314285714285714
  historical:           6.607128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673830/"
    handle:    "nm0673830"
sources:
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    title: "Зоран Перишић (стваралац визуелних ефеката)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زوران بيريسيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Peri%C5%A1i%C4%87"
    title: "Zoran Perišić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Perisic"
    title: "Zoran Perisic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Perisic_(visual_effects_artist)"
    title: "Zoran Perisic (visual effects artist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Perisic"
    title: "Zoran Perisic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%97%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD_(%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%BC_%D1%8D%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC)"
    title: "Перишич, Зоран (художник по визуальным эффектам)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130214"
    title: "Zoran Perisic"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump