A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Alex Nowotny
3D Artist:
2001 Enemy at the Gates
Effects Supervisor:
2001 Enemy at the Gates
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2016 The BFG
2016 The Jungle Book
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water
2024 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2025 A Minecraft Movie
VFX Artist:
2001 Enemy at the Gates
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 The Miracle of Bern
2005 King Kong
2006 Eragon
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007 The Water Horse
2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2009 Avatar
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2012 John Carter
2012 The Avengers
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2013 Iron Man 3
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2016 The BFG
2016 The Jungle Book
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water
2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2024 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2025 A Minecraft Movie
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
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:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
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.