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Pyrotechnic Supervisor:
2020  The New Mutants

Pyrotechnician:
2009  Surrogates
2009  The Pink Panther 2
2013  R.I.P.D.
2018  The Equalizer 2
2020  The New Mutants
2021  Free Guy
2022  Confess, Fletch
2024  Salem's Lot

Special Effects Coordinator:
2008  21
2009  Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009  Surrogates
2009  The Pink Panther 2
2011  What's Your Number?
2013  American Hustle
2013  R.I.P.D.
2015  Exeter
2015  Ted 2
2015  The Mind's Eye
2016  The Purge: Election Year
2017  Detroit
2017  The Discovery
2018  American Woman
2018  Measure of a Man
2018  The Equalizer 2
2020  Ava
2020  Blood and Money
2020  The New Mutants
2021  Free Guy
2022  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022  Confess, Fletch
2024  Salem's Lot

Special Effects Manager:
2008  21
2009  Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009  Surrogates
2009  The Box
2009  The Pink Panther 2
2011  What's Your Number?
2013  American Hustle
2013  R.I.P.D.
2015  Exeter
2015  Ted 2
2015  The Mind's Eye
2016  The Purge: Election Year
2017  Detroit
2017  The Discovery
2018  American Woman
2018  Measure of a Man
2018  The Equalizer 2
2020  Ava
2020  Blood and Money
2020  The New Mutants
2021  Free Guy
2022  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022  Confess, Fletch
2024  Salem's Lot

Special Effects Supervisor:
2008  21
2009  Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009  Surrogates
2009  The Box
2009  The Pink Panther 2
2011  What's Your Number?
2013  American Hustle
2013  R.I.P.D.
2015  Exeter
2015  Ted 2
2015  The Mind's Eye
2016  The Purge: Election Year
2017  Detroit
2017  The Discovery
2018  American Woman
2018  Measure of a Man
2018  The Equalizer 2
2020  Ava
2020  Blood and Money
2020  Jungleland
2020  The New Mutants
2021  Free Guy
2022  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022  Confess, Fletch
2022  Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2024  Challengers
2024  Salem's Lot

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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.