Burt Dalton

Burt Dalton is an Academy Award-winning motion picture special effects artist who supervised the physical special effects on . He received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Achievement in Visual Effects for his work on Star Trek, which he shared with Industrial Light & Magic crew members Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, and Paul Kavanagh. In Dalton, Earl, Kavanagh, and Guyett received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Special Effects for their work on Star Trek as well as for Into Darkness.
== Awards ==
Dalton was nominated for an Emmy Award for his effects work on (1998), which featured Star Trek alumni David Andrews, Robert Curtis Brown, David Clennon, Ronny Cox, Brett Cullen, Ann Cusack, Jerry Hardin, Clint Howard, Daniel Hugh Kelly, John Carroll Lynch, Dakin Matthews, Deborah May, Andy Milder, Kieran Mulroney, Holmes R. Osborne, Ethan Phillips, Harve Presnell, Mark Rolston, Stephen Root, and Alan Ruck. David Carson was a director on this series.
In 2009, Dalton won an Academy Award in the category "Best Achievement in Visual Effects" for coordinating the special effects of the Paramount Pictures release The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He shared the award with fellow Star Trek visual effects alum Craig Barron. Like 2009's Star Trek, Benjamin Button features Spencer Daniels in the cast.
== Other projects ==
Early in his Hollywood career, Dalton coordinated the special effects for (1980, starring James Sloyan), Creator (starring Jeff Corey, Ellen Geer, Virginia Madsen, Michael McGrady, Kenneth Tigar, and Ian Wolfe), Sweet Dreams (1985, starring David Clennon), At Close Range (1986, featuring Tracey Walter), and Disorganized Crime (1989, starring Corbin Bernsen and Daniel Roebuck). He also did special effects work for NBC's and coordinated effects for (starring Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, and Michele Scarabelli).
Since then, Dalton has coordinated or supervised the effects of films such as (1992, starring Bill Cobbs), (1995), (1996), (1997, featuring Anne Haney, Don Keefer, Randy Oglesby, and Eric Pierpoint), (1998), (2000, featuring Andy Dick and Ellen Albertini Dow), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000, featuring Bruce McGill and Harve Presnell), (2002, featuring Shannon Cochran and Richard Lineback), (2003, starring The Rock). More recent film credits include (2005, starring Enrique Murciano and William Shatner) and (2007, featuring Zach Grenier, John Carroll Lynch, and Matt Winston).
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Category:Special and Visual effects staff
Category:Academy Award nominees
Category:Saturn Award nominees
Category:BAFTA Film Award nominees
Category:Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nominees
Category:Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award winners
Category:St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award nominees
Category:VES Award nominees