Gerd Nefzer is a German special effects artist. He won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work as a special effects supervisor on Blade Runner 2049 . [1] [2] He shared the award with John Nelson, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover.
In 2022, Nefzer won his second Academy Award for his work on Dune . He shared this Award with Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles and Brian Connor. [3]
The Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is the Academy Award given to the best achievement in makeup and hairstyling for film. Traditionally, three films have been nominated each year with exceptions in the early 1980s and 2002 when there were only two nominees; in 1999, when there were four nominees. Beginning with the 92nd Academy Awards, five films were nominated.
The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible.
Richard R. Hoover is a visual effects artist noted for his work on Armageddon, Superman Returns and Blade Runner 2049.
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, 2018, rather than its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the 2018 Winter Olympics. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony, which was televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the second consecutive year.
Luis Sequeira is a Canadian costume designer of Portuguese descent. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro and has been nominated two times for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design on two of his films: The Shape of Water (2017) and Nightmare Alley (2021).
Arjen Tuiten is a Netherlands-born American Special effects make-up artist. Tuiten started his career under the supervision of Stan Winston, Rick Baker, and Dick Smith. He worked on films Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Terminator Salvation (2009), Iron Man 2, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011), Maleficent (2014), Wonder (2017) and Welcome to Marwen (2018). For his work on Wonder, he received an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling nomination at the 90th Academy Awards.
Daniel Phillips is an English special effects make-up artist known for his work on films Florence Foster Jenkins, Dracula Untold, Closed Circuit, The Duchess, The Queen, and Victoria & Abdul, for which he was nominated with Lou Sheppard for the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling in the 90th Academy Awards.
Lou Sheppard or Loulia Sheppard is an English Special effects make-up artist. Known for her work on films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Now You See Me 2, Florence Foster Jenkins, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Anna Karenina, The King's Speech, and Victoria & Abdul, for which she was nominated with Daniel Phillips for Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling nomination at 90th Academy Awards.
David Malinowski is a BAFTA and Oscar winning special effects make-up artist. He started his career in 1996 and spent 10 years working for Madame Tussauds in London, then left to pursue his career in film and television. At the 2018 BAFTA Film Awards, he won the award for Film Makeup and Hair, and at the 90th Academy Awards, he won the award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for his work on the 2017 film Darkest Hour. He was nominated with Kazuhiro Tsuji and Lucy Sibbick. He lives in the Buckinghamshire village of Aston Clinton.
Lucy Sibbick is a British special effects make-up artist. She is best known for her work on the film Darkest Hour for which she was awarded with Kazuhiro Tsuji and David Malinowski the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 90th Academy Awards. Lucy resides in the North West of England, with her husband Arie Dekker.
Ben Morris is a special effects artist. He was co-nominated for Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Mike Mulholland is a special effects artist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Mike Meinardus is a special effects supervisor. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Kong: Skull Island.
Paul Lambert is an English visual effects supervisor at Wylie Co. He has won three Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects: one for the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 at the 90th Academy Awards, one for the 2018 film First Man at the 91st Academy Awards., and his recent one in 2022, at the 94th Academy Awards, for his work on Dune.
Jeff A. Melvin is a Canadian set decorator. Best known for his work on the 2017 film, The Shape of Water, for which he won Academy Award for Best Production Design, with production designer Paul Denham Austerberry, and set decorator, Shane Vieau. The trio also won the BAFTA award for Production Design on February 18.
Shane Vieau is a Canadian set decorator best known for his work on the 2017 film, The Shape of Water, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Production Design, with production designer, Paul Denham Austerberry and set decorator Jeff Melvin. He was also nominated for an Academy Award at the 94th Academy Awards for the film Nightmare Alley, for which his nomination is shared with Tamara Deverell in the category Best Production Design.
Paul Austerberry is a Canadian film and television production designer. For his set design in the 2017 film The Shape of Water he won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design with set decorators Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin. In the 2013 film Pompeii, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 with Nigel Churcher.
Tristan Myles is a British-Canadian visual effects artist. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Visual Effects for the films First Man and Dune.
Brian Connor is an American visual effects artist. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film Dune.