Craig Barron
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Craig Barron is a motion picture visual effects specialist who has contributed to five of the ten Star Trek feature films. As a member of Industrial Light & Magic's (ILM) matte department, Barron worked as a matte photographer on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. He also worked on such films as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, The Goonies, Cocoon, The Witches of Eastwick, and Willow.
After eight years with ILM, Barron co-founded a VFX company, with Krystyna Demkowicz, in the late 1980s called Matte World (renamed Matte World Digital in 1997) where he holds the title of Visual Effects Supervisor. It was in this capacity that he contributed to two more Trek films, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Star Trek: First Contact.
The first film Barron worked on in his own company was Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ in 1989. Subsequent films include Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Dracula, Demolition Man, Clear and Present Danger, Casino, Independence Day, Con Air, Titanic, The Truman Show, Armageddon, X-Men, The Mummy Returns, The Ring, The Last Samurai, and Zodiac.
In 1993, Barron earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on Batman Returns. He shared the nomination with the film's Visual Effects Supervisor, Mike Fink, and the Visual Effects Supervisor of Boss Film Studios, John Bruno. In 2009, Barron won an Academy Award for his visual effects work on Paramount Pictures' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which he shared with Burt Dalton.
