John Knoll

October 6, 1962
Ann Arbor, Michigan
62 years and 46 days
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
Visual Effects. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century Fox. John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires and Rob Coleman.
Visual Effects. Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century Fox. Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll and Ben Snow.
Visual Effects. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Terry Frazee.
Winner markerVisual Effects. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Production; Buena Vista. John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall.
Visual Effects. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Production; Walt Disney. John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier.
Visual Effects. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, A Lucasfilm Ltd. production; Walt Disney. John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould.
Winner markerScientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering Award). To Thomas Knoll and John Knoll for the original architecture, design and development, and to Mark Hamburg for his continued development and engineering of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop’s efficient, extensible architecture, innovative virtual-memory design and powerful layering system introduced a new level of user interactivity, which led to its adoption as the preferred artistic tool for digital painting and image manipulation across the motion picture industry.

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