Craig Barron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Craig Barron

American visual-effects supervisor

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1961

Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States

Profession: visual effects supervisor, artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Craig Barron (born April 6, 1961) is an American visual effects artist, currently Creative Director at Magnopus, a Los Angeles media company that produces augmented and virtual-reality experiences.Working at Industrial Light & Magic on such films as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial, and later at his own VFX studio, Matte World Digital, on Zodiac, Alice in Wonderland and Hugo, Barron has contributed to the effects on more than 100 films.
He is an Emmy Award recipient for By Dawn's Early Light and received an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects on Batman Returns.
In 2009, he won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Over the course of his career, Barron has become a film historian, author, lecturer and University educator with a focus on the history of visual effects produced in classic films, before and after the digital age.