Craig Barron Articles

Visual effects supervisor Craig Barron (left, Alice in Wonderland, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Oscar-winning sound editor Ben Burtt (E.T., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, WALL-E) at a screening of both Cedric Gibbons' Tarzan and His Mate (1934) and Richard Thorpe's Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939), presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council on Sunday, October 24, at the Academy’s Linwood [...]

Craig Barron, Lisa Zeno Churgin (right), Caleb Deschanel (above), Randal Kleiser and Alex McDowell have accepted invitations to join the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The information below is from the Academy's press release: Lisa Zeno Churgin, an Academy Award-nominated editor for The Cider House Rules, has edited more than 20 features, including Reality Bites, Gattaca, House [...]

Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda: Never a dull moment, whether fighting Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or romancing Madeleine Carroll Celebrating Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s 100th birthday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) on Wednesday, December 9, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Oscar-winning visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar-winning sound designer [...]

"Linwood Dunn: Celebrating a Visual Effects Pioneer," will explore the work of special effects artist Linwood Dunn (above, lower photo), including the techniques he used in creating optical effects for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, on Friday, October 9, at 8 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' appropriately named Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. A newly struck print of Citizen Kane from [...]