Clay Pinney

Clay Pinney was an Academy Award-winning special effects artist who worked on . 
Pinney worked on special effects in Hollywood films since the early 1980s. His first project was (1983), which featured David Warner, James Cromwell, and Jeffrey Combs. His subsequent films included (starring Stephen Collins), Fright Night (starring Chris Sarandon), and The Witches of Eastwick (featuring Carel Struycken).
The first film on which Pinney served as special effects foreman was 1986's Poltergeist II: The Other Side. He then served special effects foreman on (1988), starring Christopher Lloyd and Joanna Cassidy. Afterward, he coordinated the special effects for (1989), starring Catherine Hicks and Wallace Shawn.
Pinney received his first Academy Award nomination as a special effects foreman on (1991), for which he also received a BAFTA Award nomination. After supervising or coordinating the effects for such films as (1991, featuring Bebe Neuwirth), (1992, featuring Shelly Desai), and The American President (featuring Anne Haney), Pinney received his second Academy Award nomination – and his first win – for supervising the mechanical effects of (1996, featuring Brent Spiner, Bill Smitrovich, Frank Novak, Leland Orser, Raphael Sbarge, Carlos LaCamara, Tim Kelleher, Robert Pine, randy Oglesby, Erick Avari, and Tracey Walter). His work on this film also earned Pinney a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, a Universe Reader's Choice Award from Sci-Fi Universe Magazine, and a second nomination from the BAFTA Awards. All of these honors were shared with Star Trek effects veterans Doug Smith and Joe Viskocil.
Afterward, Pinney re-teamed with Independence Day director as special effects supervisor and mechanical effects supervisor for (1998), which earned Pinney another Saturn Award. Pinney later supervised the effects for such films as The Cell (featuring John Cothran, Jr. and Vanessa Branch), Lost Souls (starring Winona Ryder, Brad Greenquist, and Alfre Woodard), , (featuring Anthony Zerbe), , My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Next (featuring Jim Beaver and Bonita Friedericy), , and Speed Racer.
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