Ken Ralston

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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia