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.
Known For
Photos
Filmography
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Men in Black 3
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
The Polar Express
Movie · VFX Supervisor
Men in Black II
Movie · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
America's Sweethearts
Movie · Visual Effects Coordinator
Cast Away
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Contact
Movie · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
Phenomenon
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
The American President
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Jumanji
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Forrest Gump
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Death Becomes Her
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
The Rocketeer
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Back to the Future Part III
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Dreams
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Back to the Future Part II
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
The Golden Child
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Cocoon
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Movie · Visual Effects Supervisor