Craig Barron

Craig Barron is a motion picture visual effects (VFX) specialist who has contributed to five . As a member of Industrial Light & Magic's (ILM) matte department, Barron worked as a matte photographer on , , and .
After founding his own Matte World company in 1988, Barron has, as its VFX supervisor, in this capacity subsequently contributed to two more Star Trek films, and . 
== Career ==
While employed at ILM – which he had joined at the age of 18 in 1979, at the time the youngest employee at that company – he, besides the Star Trek productions, had also worked on such films as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, The Goonies, Cocoon, The Witches of Eastwick, and Willow.
After eight years with ILM, Barron co-founded in 1988 a VFX company, with Krystyna Demkowicz and ILM colleague Michael Pangrazio, called Matte World (renamed Matte World Digital in 1992) where he held the title of Visual Effects Supervisor. The first film Barron worked on in his own company was Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ in 1989. Subsequent films include Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Dracula, Demolition Man, Clear and Present Danger, Casino, , Con Air, , alongside several other former Star Trek VFX staffers ), The Truman Show, , X-Men, The Mummy Returns, The Ring, The Last Samurai, and Zodiac. 
In 1993, Barron earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on . He shared the nomination with the film's Visual Effects Supervisor, Mike Fink, and the Visual Effects Supervisor of Boss Film Studios, John Bruno. In 2009, Barron won an Academy Award for his visual effects work on Paramount Pictures' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which he shared with Burt Dalton.
In August 2012, Barron was forced to close down his company, being sole CEO of by then, due to increased overseas competition.
Together with free-lance author Mark Cotta Vaz, Barron co-authored the 2002 reference book, The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting, which chronicles the history of matte painting.
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