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American visual effects artist
Dennis Skotak |
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| Born | Dennis John Skotak
1943 (age 79–80)
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| Occupation | Visual effects artist |
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| Relatives | Robert Skotak (brother) |
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Dennis John Skotak (born 1943)[1] is an American visual effects artist. In 1990 he won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the film The Abyss, and was nominated for another three years later for Batman Returns.[2][3]
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| 1963–1980 |
- Emil Kosa Jr. (1963)
- Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske (1964)
- John Stears (1965)
- Art Cruickshank (1966)
- L. B. Abbott (1967)
- Stanley Kubrick (1968)
- Robie Robertson (1969)
- L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1970)
- Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee (1971)
- L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1972)
- No Award (1973)
- Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1974)
- Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1975)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson and Frank Van der Veer (1976)
- John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack (1977)
- Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings and Zoran Perisic (1978)
- H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Dennis Ayling (1979)
- Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson (1980)
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| 1981–2000 |
- Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson and Joe Johnston (1981)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren and Kenneth F. Smith (1982)
- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Phil Tippett (1983)
- Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson and George Gibbs (1984)
- Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar and David Berry (1985)
- Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne M. Benson (1986)
- Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup and Kenneth F. Smith (1987)
- Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones and George Gibbs (1988)
- John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman and Dennis Skotak (1989)
- Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern and Alex Funke (1990)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak (1991)
- Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Douglas Smythe and Tom Woodruff Jr. (1992)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri (1993)
- Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum and Allen Hall (1994)
- Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox (1995)
- Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil (1996)
- Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher and Michael Kanfer (1997)
- Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson and Kevin Mack (1998)
- John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum (1999)
- John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke and Rob Harvey (2000)
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| 2001–2020 |
- Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson (2001)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2003)
- John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier (2004)
- Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor (2005)
- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall (2006)
- Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood (2007)
- Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron (2008)
- Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
- Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb (2010)
- Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning (2011)
- Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott (2012)
- Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (2013)
- Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott R. Fisher (2014)
- Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst (2015)
- Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon (2016)
- John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover (2017)
- Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm (2018)
- Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy (2019)
- Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson, David Lee and Andrew Lockley (2020)
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