Bill Neil is an American

visual effects artist The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight (the ...

. He was nominated for an

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in the category

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for the film '' Poltergeist II: The Other Side''.

Selected filmography

* '' Poltergeist II: The Other Side'' (1986; co-nominated with

Richard Edlund Richard Edlund, (born December 6, 1940) is an American visual effects artist and inventor. He was a founding member of Industrial Light & Magic, having already founded Pignose amplifiers, and later co-founded Boss Film Studios and DuMonde VFX. ...

, John Bruno and

Garry Waller Garry Waller is an American director of photography and visual effects supervisor who has worked in Hollywood for nearly thirty years. He has been nominated for both an Academy Award and an Emmy Award and has worked with, among others, Tim Burton ...

) * ''

Dick Tracy ''Dick Tracy'' is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (character), Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the ''De ...

'' (1990)

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