Known For
Visual Effects
Credits
35 titles
Ken Ralston
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
Filmography
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self
The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
Self
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Visual Effects Supervisor
Star Wars: Greatest Moments
Self
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Self
Men in Black 3
Visual Effects Supervisor
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Himself
Alice in Wonderland
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
Beowulf
Visual Effects Design Consultant
The Polar Express
VFX Supervisor
When Star Wars Ruled the World
Self
Men in Black II
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
America's Sweethearts
Visual Effects Coordinator
Cast Away
Visual Effects Supervisor
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Self
Contact
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
Phenomenon
Visual Effects Supervisor
Jumanji
Visual Effects Supervisor
The American President
Visual Effects Supervisor
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Self
Forrest Gump
Visual Effects Supervisor
Death Becomes Her
Second Unit Director
The Rocketeer
Visual Effects Supervisor
Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air
Self
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy
Self
Back to the Future Part III
Visual Effects Supervisor
Dreams
Visual Effects Supervisor
Back to the Future Part II
Visual Effects Supervisor
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Self – Visual Effects Supervisor
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Visual Effects Supervisor
The Golden Child
Visual Effects Supervisor
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Visual Effects Supervisor
Cocoon
Visual Effects Supervisor
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Visual Effects Supervisor
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Visual Effects Supervisor