Clay Pinney

Clayton W. "Clay" Pinney (born before 1980) is a special effects artist .

Life

Pinney began his career in the early 1980s and made his feature film debut in 1983 with Carl Reiner's comedy The Man with Two Brains . 1992 he worked for Ron Howard's action film Backdraft - men who pass through the fire together with Mikael Salomon , Allen Hall and Scott Farrar for the Oscar in the category Best Visual Effects nominated, but the award went this year to James Cameron's science fiction Film Terminator 2 - Judgment Day . At the BAFTA Film Awards , Backdraft - Men Who Go Through Fire was also defeated in the Best Visual Effects Terminator 2 - Day of Reckoning category . In 1997 he won the Oscar for Roland Emmerich's Independence Day together with Volker Engel , Douglas Smith and Joe Viskocil . At the BAFTA Film Awards, however , Independence Day was inferior to Jan de Bont's Twister .

In 2014 , Pinney, along with John Frazier and Chuck Gaspar , was awarded the Oscar for Technical Merit for developing a pneumatic device that could cause cars to roll over .

Filmography (selection)

• 1983: The Man with Two Brains (The Man with Two Brains)
• 1985: Hell with the Coals (Brewster's Millions)
• 1986: Star Trek IV: Back to the Present (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
• 1987: The Witches of Eastwick (The Witches of Eastwick)
• 1988: Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
• 1991: Backdraft - Men Who Go Through Fire (Backdraft)
• 1991: Bugsy
• 1992: Toys
• 1996: Independence Day
• 1998: Godzilla
• 2003: Matrix Reloaded (The Matrix Reloaded)
• 2006: Die Super-Ex (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
• 2007: Next
• 2009: Star Trek
• 2011: Green Lantern
• 2013: Man of Steel
• 2014: Robocop

Awards (selection)

• 1992: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best Visual Effects for Backdraft - Men Who Go Through Fire
• 1992 : Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects for Backdraft - Men Who Go Through Fire
• 1997: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best Visual Effects category for Independence Day
• 1997 : Oscar for Best Visual Effects for Independence Day
• 2014 : Oscar for technical merits for the development of Pneumatic Car Flipper technology

Web links

• Clay Pinney in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oscars 1992 (English)
2. ↑ BAFTA Awards 1984 (English)
3. ↑ Oscars 1999 (English)
4. ↑ BAFTA Awards 1999 (English)
5. ↑ Technical Achievement Awards 2014 (English)