John Bruno

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John Bruno (* 20th century) is an American film technician and specialist in visual effects in film.

Career

1990 he won together with Hoyt Yeatman , Dennis Muren and Dennis Skotak in the category " Best Visual Effects " an Oscar for underwater thriller Abyss - abyss of death , in which James Cameron directed. The film was nominated in three other categories and also received a nomination for the Saturn Award in the "Best Special Effects" category.

Bruno first appeared in the film industry in 1971. In the animated film Shinbone Alley , he worked as an assistant animator. In 1977 he contributed an episode to Scooby-Doo , a successful US animated series: Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics . From 1979 to 1980 he was responsible for another 16 episodes of the series as story director. Bruno delivered his first film work in his specialty special effects / visual effects in 1981 for the Canadian science fiction cartoon Heavy Metal , which was nominated for a Saturn Award for “Best Science Fiction Film”. In 1985 Bruno was nominated for an Oscar with Richard Edlund , Mark Vargo and Chuck Gaspar for the science fiction fantasy comedy Ghostbusters . The film won the Saturn Award for best fantasy film in 1985 . In 1987 Bruno was, like his colleagues Richard Edlund, Gary Waller and Bill Neil, again nominated for an Oscar with the horror film Poltergeist II - The Other Side . In 1990 Bruno was part of the scoring crew for the films Die Hard 2 and Misery . In 2000 the film specialist wrote the episode Life Line ( lifeline ) with Robert Picardo for the television series Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager , after he had previously directed two episodes of the series Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager in 1999/2000 .

For the film adaptation of the Batman comics created by Bob Kane, Batman 's Return , directed by Tim Burton , Bruno was nominated again for an Oscar in 1993 alongside Michael L. Fink , Craig Barron and Dennis Skotak . The film also received a BAFTA Award nomination in the Specials Effects category . Another Oscar nomination came for Bruno and his colleagues Pamela Easley, Neil Krepela and John Richardson in 1994 for the action and adventure film Cliffhanger - Only the Strong Survive . In 1995 Bruno was nominated again for an Oscar nomination for James Cameron's action film True Lies , along with Thomas L. Fisher, Jacques Stroweis and Patrick McClung . With this film Bruno won the Saturn Award and was also nominated for the BAFTA Award. In the film itself, Bruno was seen in a small role as a guard. In 1996 he worked as a director on the short film T2 3-D: Battle Across Time . In 1999 Bruno made his debut as a film director with Virus - Schiff without Return .

Together with James Cameron and Chuck Comisky, Bruno was responsible for the production of the 2003 documentary The Spirits of the Titanic . The film received a BFCA nomination for “Best Picture”. In 2006 Bruno received the Satellite Award for the comic-action film adaptation X-Men: The Last Resistance and in 2007 a nomination for the Saturn Award .

As Bruno's last work so far, IMDb lists the not yet released film Hercules, directed by Brett Ratner . The film database shows 22 films on Bruno's “Visuelle Effeke” account as well as various other accounts that prove his activity in another function.

Awards

Oscar Nominated Films (Visual Effects):

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b John Bruno - Awards at IMDb. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  2. ^ John Bruno , filmography at IMDb. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bruno, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American special effects artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century