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Ken Ralston

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Motion picture visual effects artist

United StatesBorn 1954 · age 72
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Kenneth Ralston is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

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1995Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1994Sitges Film Festival best special effects award
1993Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1989Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1986Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1984Special Achievement Academy Award

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Kenneth Ralston is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect 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, he was hired at Industrial Light & Magic by Dennis Muren 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.

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Born 1954 · age 72
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