John Knoll is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop, he has also worked as visual effects supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy. He also served as ILM's visual effects supervisor for Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, as well as the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Along with Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall, Knoll and the trio's work on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest earned them the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Bill Miller is a Sydney-based feature film producer.
Hal T. Hickel is a visual effects animator for Industrial Light & Magic.
Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.
Paul Massey is an English sound engineer working based in Southern California. He has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on 200-plus films since 1982. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing in 2019 for Bohemian Rhapsody along with John Casali and Tim Cavagin. In 2022 Massey received the Cinema Audio Society’s Career Achievement Award at the 58th annual CAS Awards.
Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another eleven. He has worked on more than 100 films since 1991.
Martin Samuel is a British three-time Oscar nominated hair stylist in the category of Best Makeup and Hairstyling. He is most famous for doing the hair on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies along with Ve Neill. He has had over 55 credits since 1974.
Allen Hall is an American special effects artist who has won two Academy Awards and two BAFTA awards.
George Watters II is an American retired sound editor with more than 80 feature film credits. He has won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing twice, for The Hunt for Red October (1990) and for Pearl Harbor (2001).
Michael Silvers is a sound editor who has often worked with Pixar. He has worked on nearly every Pixar feature film.
Kenneth Diaz is an American make-up artist who has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards for makeup. As well as winning an Emmy for the makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He has done over 80 films and TV shows, including The Passion of the Christ and The Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Jon Thum is a visual effects artist. He contributed work on The Matrix and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. As a supervisor at Prime Focus World in 2012, he led a 70-person team of artists to produce 650 visual effects shots for Dredd 3D.
Russell William Earl is a visual effects supervisor. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards, among other awards.
Ben Snow is a special effects artist who has been nominated four times at the Academy Awards. He works at Industrial Light & Magic.
Terry Frazee is an American special effects artist. He was nominated at the 76th Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects for his work on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He shared his nomination with Charles Gibson, Hal Hickel and John Knoll.
Scott E. Anderson, is an Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for the Academy Award three times, and received the Oscar for Babe. A longstanding member of the visual effects community, he was an early leader and key contributor to the Oscar winning films The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and King Kong.
John Cox is an Australian special effects artist who won at the 68th Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects. He won for the film Babe, which he shared his win with Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, and Neal Scanlan.
Larry Dias is a set decorator who was nominated at the 83rd Academy Awards for his work on the film Inception, this was in the category of Best Art Direction. His nomination was shared with Guy Hendrix Dyas and Doug Mowat.
Richard R. Hoover is a visual effects artist noted for his work on Armageddon, Superman Returns and Blade Runner 2049.
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