Ken Ralston
Known For: Visual Effects
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Ralston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2022
- LIGHT & MAGIC as Self - Camera Department
2021
2016
- Alice Through the Looking Glass ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
2015
- Star Wars: Greatest Moments as Self
2012
- Men in Black 3 ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
- Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan as Self
2010
- Alice in Wonderland ... (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor)
- Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland as Himself
2007
- Beowulf ... (Visual Effects Design Consultant)
2004
- The Polar Express ... (VFX Supervisor)
- When Star Wars Ruled the World as Self
2002
- Men in Black II ... (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor)
2001
- America's Sweethearts ... (Visual Effects Coordinator)
2000
- Cast Away ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1997
- Contact ... (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor)
1996
- Phenomenon ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1995
- The American President ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
- Jumanji ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1994
- Forrest Gump ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
- Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump as Self
1992
- Death Becomes Her ... (Second Unit Director)
1991
- The Rocketeer ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
- Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air as Self
1990
- Back to the Future Part III ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
- The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy as Self
1989
- Back to the Future Part II ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1988
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1986
- The Golden Child ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1985
- Cocoon ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1984
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)
1982
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ... (Visual Effects Supervisor)