About
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...
Known for
Forrest GumpMovie • 1994
Alice in WonderlandMovie • 2010
ContactMovie • 1997
Men in Black IIMovie • 2002
Men in Black 3Movie • 2012
Back to the Future Part IIMovie • 1989
Cast AwayMovie • 2000
Alice Through the Looking GlassMovie • 2016
The Polar ExpressMovie • 2004
Who Framed Roger RabbitMovie • 1988
Back to the Future Part IIIMovie • 1990
DreamsMovie • 1990
Death Becomes HerMovie • 1992
BeowulfMovie • 2007
Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanMovie • 1982
Star Trek IV: The Voyage HomeMovie • 1986
The Golden ChildMovie • 1986
PhenomenonMovie • 1996
JumanjiMovie • 1995
CocoonMovie • 1985
The RocketeerMovie • 1991
Star Trek III: The Search for SpockMovie • 1984
America's SweetheartsMovie • 2001
The American PresidentMovie • 1995