George Murphy (special effects artist)

George Murphy is a special effects artist .

Life

Murphy began his career in the early 1990s and made his feature film debut working for Industrial Light & Magic with Steven Spielberg's fantasy film Hook . He was with ILM for a decade, then moved to Kim Libreris ESC Entertainment and later to Weta Workshop . From 2007 he worked at ImageMovers . Murphy was first involved in a television production in 2014. For his work on the adventure series Black Sails , he was awarded the Primetime Emmy in the same year .

In 1995 he won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for Robert Zemecki's Forrest Gump, along with Ken Ralston , Stephen Rosenbaum and Allen Hall . They also won the BAFTA Film Award in the Best Visual Effects category , together with Doug Chiang .

Filmography (selection)

• 1991: Hook
• 1992: Death Becomes Her (Death Becomes Her)
• 1993: Jurassic Park
• 1994: Forrest Gump
• 1996: Mission: Impossible
• 1996: Star Trek: First Contact
• 1998: The Mercury Puzzle (Mercury Rising)
• 2000: Mission to Mars
• 2003: Matrix Reloaded (The Matrix Reloaded)
• 2003: Matrix Revolutions (The Matrix Revolutions)
• 2005: King Kong
• 2009: Disney's A Christmas Carol
• 2014: Maleficent - The Dark Fairy (Maleficent)

Awards (selection)

• 1995 : Oscar for Best Visual Effects for Forrest Gump
• 1995: BAFTA Film Award for Best Visual Effects for Forrest Gump

Web links

• George Murphy in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GeorgeMurphy.com (English)
2. ↑ Oscars 1995 (English)
3. ↑ BAFTA Awards 1995 (English)