Scott E. Anderson

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Scott E. Anderson
Born (1964-04-01) April 1, 1964 (age 60)
Cortland, New York, USA
Occupation Visual effects artist
Years active1989-present

Scott E. Anderson (born April 1, 1964), is an Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for the Academy Award three times ( Babe , Starship Troopers , Hollow Man ), 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.

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He studied film, semiotics and computer science and graduated with an Sc.B. from Brown University. While at Brown he was a member of the Brown Computer Graphics Group studying under Andries van Dam and was a varsity wrestler and four-time captain of the Brown Wrestling Team.

Anderson is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Visual Effects Society (VES).

Oscar history

All of these are in the category of Best Visual Effects.

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References

  1. ↑ "The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ "The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ "The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
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