
Dennis Muren
Known for department: Visual Effects
Birthday: 1946-11-01
Place of birth: Glendale, California, USA
Biography
Dennis Muren, A.S.C. (born November 1, 1946) is an American film visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked on the films of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron, among others, and has won nine Oscars in total: eight for Best Visual Effects and a Technical Achievement Academy Award. The Visual Effects Society has called him "a perpetual student, teacher, innovator, and mentor." He has been identified as "a pioneer in bringing a new wave of visual effects films to the public, opening the doors for screenwriters and directors to tell stories never before possible with a new realism through the use of his skills in cinematic arts and advanced technologies." According to Spielberg, Muren "set the example at Industrial Light & Magic for visual effects excellence with effects that add strong, appropriate emotion to a shot and fit seamlessly into a movie." Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Muren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
2007Self
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996Self
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
1997Self
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006Self
Side by Side
2012Self
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005SelfFinding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren
2017Himself
The Pixar Story
2007Self
Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs
1999SelfVisual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008Self
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015Self
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981Nazi Spy on the Airplane (uncredited)
Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals
2024SelfA Celebration of Tenacity
2024Self
The Harryhausen Chronicles
1997Self
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001Self
Spielberg
2017Self
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
2010Self
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995Self