Steve Preeg

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Steve Preeg
Occupation Visual effects artist
Years active 1996-present

Steve Preeg is an American Academy Award-winning special effects artist.

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He won at the 81st Academy Awards for the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , in the category of Best Visual Effects. He shared his Oscar with Eric Barba, Craig Barron and Burt Dalton. [1]

81st Academy Awards 2009 ceremony honoring the best in film for 2008

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The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

He graduated in 1989 from Los Alamos High School.

Filmography

<i>Oblivion</i> (2013 film) 2013 American science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski

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<i>Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End</i> 2007 film by Gore Verbinski

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 American epic fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, the third in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and the sequel to Dead Man's Chest (2006). The plot follows Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Hector Barbossa, and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett, who controls Davy Jones and plans to extinguish piracy forever. It is the last film in the series to be directed by Verbinski. It was filmed in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with Dead Man's Chest. With an estimated production budget of $300 million, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release, even after adjusting for inflation.

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References

  1. ↑ "The 81st Academy Awards (2009) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ "interview with Steve Preeg" . Retrieved May 12, 2015.


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