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Bruce Nicholson is a special effects artist who received the Special Achievement Academy Award in 1980 for the visual effects of the film The Empire Strikes Back, which he shared with Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund and Dennis Muren.[1] He won his first competitive Oscar for Raiders of the Lost Ark at the 1981 in the category of Best Visual Effects, where he shared his award with Richard Edlund, Kit West and Joe Johnston.[2] He got one more Oscar nomination, for the 1982 for the film Poltergeist, which lost to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[3]
He has worked on nearly 50 films since 1977.
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- L. B. Abbott, A. D. Flowers (1972)
- Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock (1974)
- Peter Berkos / Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson (1975)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer / L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich (1976)
- Ben Burtt / Frank Warner (1977)
- Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic (1978)
- Alan Splet (1979)
- Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (1980)
- Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson (1981)
- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett (1983)
- Kay Rose (1984)
- Stephen Hunter Flick, John Pospisil (1987)
- Richard Williams (1988)
- Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke (1990)
- John Lasseter (1995)
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (2017)
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1963-1980 |
- Emil Kosa Jr. (1963)
- Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske (1964)
- John Stears (1965)
- Art Cruickshank (1966)
- L. B. Abbott (1967)
- Stanley Kubrick (1968)
- Robbie Robertson (1969)
- L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1970)
- Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee (1971)
- L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1972)
- No Award (1973)
- Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1974)
- Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1975)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson and Frank Van der Veer (1976)
- John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack (1977)
- Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings and Zoran Perisic (1978)
- H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Dennis Ayling (1979)
- Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson (1980)
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1981-2000 |
- Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson and Joe Johnston (1981)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren and Kenneth F. Smith (1982)
- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Phil Tippett (1983)
- Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson and George Gibbs (1984)
- Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar and David Berry (1985)
- Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne Benson (1986)
- Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup and Kenneth F. Smith (1987)
- Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones and George Gibbs (1988)
- John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman and Dennis Skotak (1989)
- Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern and Alex Funke (1990)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak (1991)
- Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Douglas Smythe and Tom Woodruff Jr. (1992)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri (1993)
- Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum and Allen Hall (1994)
- Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox (1995)
- Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil (1996)
- Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher and Michael Kanfer (1997)
- Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson and Kevin Mack (1998)
- John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum (1999)
- John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke and Rob Harvey (2000)
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2001-present |
- Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson (2001)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2003)
- John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier (2004)
- Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor (2005)
- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall (2006)
- Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood (2007)
- Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron (2008)
- Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
- Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb (2010)
- Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning (2011)
- Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott (2012)
- Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (2013)
- Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott R. Fisher (2014)
- Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst (2015)
- Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon (2016)
- John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover (2017)
- Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm (2018)
- Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy (2019)
- Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson, David Lee and Andrew Lockley (2020)
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