The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Star Wars: Greatest Moments

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland

When Star Wars Ruled the World

From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air

The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Men in Black 3

Alice in Wonderland

Beowulf

The Polar Express

Men in Black II

America's Sweethearts

Cast Away

Contact

Phenomenon

Jumanji

The American President

Forrest Gump

Death Becomes Her

The Rocketeer

Back to the Future Part III

Back to the Future Part II

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The Golden Child

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Cocoon

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Kenneth Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. In 1976, he was hired at Industrial Light & Magic by Dennis Muren to help George Lucas create the effects for Star Wars. He remained at ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president. Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis.
Ralston has won five Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects in Return of the Jedi (1983), and regular awards for his work on Cocoon (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992) and Forrest Gump (1994). He was nominated three more times for Dragonslayer (1981), Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
Ken has contributed to several DVD commentaries:

King Kong (1933) - with visual effects creator Ray Harryhausen
Mighty Joe Young (1949) - with visual effects creator Ray Harryhausen and actress Terry Moore
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - with director Robert Zemeckis, producer Frank Marshall, associate producer Steve Starkey, screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman
Contact (1997) - with visual effects supervisor Stephen Rosenbaum
Cast Away (2000) - with cinematographer Don Burgess, visual effects supervisor Carey Villegas, sound designer Randy Thom



Ken Ralston