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Volker Engel

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Visual Effects Artist

GermanyDirectorsBorn 1965 · age 61
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Volker Engel is a German special effects artist who is best known as one of the people who won at the 69th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects on the film Independence Day. He won with Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil.

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Filmography 8

Anonymous2011 · ★ 6.4
Ring of the Nibelungs2004 · ★ 6.3
Coronado2003
The Making of 'Independence Day'1996
Independence Day: Creating Reality2000
Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'2016
Roland Emmerich - Weltenzerstörer, Weltenerbauer2025
Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich2025

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Television 1

The Triangle2005

Awards 3

1998Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1997Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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Volker Engel is a German special effects artist who is best known as one of the people who won at the 69th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects on the film Independence Day. He won with Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil. in 1999, he founded the visual effects company Uncharted Territory, LLC with Marc Weigert.

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Germany
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
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Dates
Born 1965 · age 61
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