Adam Valdez is

visual effects supervisor In the context of film and television production, a visual effects supervisor is responsible for achieving the creative aims of the director or producers through the use of visual effects Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process ...

. Best known for his works on Oscar winning films '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (2001) and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (2002) as an animation head, though did not get the nomination. Valdez worked as lead visual supervisor in acclaimed films such as ''

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'' (2008), '' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'' (2008), '' John Carter'' (2012), ''

World War Z ''World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War'' is a 2006 zombie apocalyptic horror novel written by American author Max Brooks. The novel is broken into eight chapters: “Warnings”, “Blame”, “The Great Panic”, “Turning the Ti ...

'' (2013), ''

Maleficent Maleficent ( or ) is a fictional character who appears as the main antagonist in Walt Disney Productions' 16th animated feature film, ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959). She is represented as an evil fairy and the self-proclaimed " Mistress of All Evil ...

'' (2014), ''

The Jungle Book ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, w ...

'' (2016) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at 89th Academy Awards. In 2020, he received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects for ''

The Lion King ''The Lion King'' is a 1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 32nd Disney animated feature film and the fifth produced during the Disney Renaissance ...

'' (2019).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valdez, Adam Living people Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners Best Visual Effects BAFTA Award winners Special effects people Year of birth missing (living people)