December 2024
“No Right or Wrong Way”: Dennis Muren, ASC
Photos courtesy of Industrial Light and Magic In the summer of 1999, one block east of the famed Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the local Chamber of Commerce unveiled the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedicated to a visual-effects artist. Dennis Muren, ASC accepted the singular honor. Muren’s many other accolades, which include nine Academy Awards (for The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Innerspace, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park, and a Technical Achievement Award shared with Stuart Ziff for the development of the Motion Picture Figure Mover for animation photography), have spanned photochemical and digital eras at...more
