A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Ben Snow is a special effects artist who has been nominated four times at the Academy Awards. He works at Industrial Light & Magic. Snow grew up in Australia, where he attended Narrabundah College and the University of Canberra. His university degree, which he completed in 1986, was a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Studies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Snow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Visual Effects Supervisor:
2001 Pearl Harbor
2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2004 Van Helsing
2005 King Kong
2008 Iron Man
2009 Terminator Salvation
2010 Iron Man 2
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
2016 The Great Wall
2017 mother!
2020 Godmothered
2023 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2024 Twisters
2024 Venom: The Last Dance
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.