Scott E. Anderson (born April 1, 1964), is an Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for the Academy Award three times ('' Babe'', '' Starship Troopers'', '' Hollow Man''), and received the Oscar for '' Babe''. A longstanding member of the visual effects community, he was an early leader and key contributor to the Oscar winning films The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and King Kong. He studied film,

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and computer science and graduated with an Sc.B. from

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. While at Brown he was a member of the Brown Computer Graphics Group studying under

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and was a varsity wrestler and four-time captain of the Brown Wrestling Team. Anderson is a member of the

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(DGA) and the Visual Effects Society (VES).

Oscar history

All of these are in the category of Best Visual Effects. * 68th Academy Awards-'' Babe''. Award shared with John Cox,

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, and Neal Scanlan. Won. *

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-Nominated for '' Starship Troopers''. Nomination shared with Alec Gillis, John Richardson and Phil Tippett. Lost to ''

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''. * 73rd Academy Awards-Nominated for '' Hollow Man''. Nomination shared with Craig Hayes, Stan Parks and Scott Stokdyk, lost to ''

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''.

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* Living people 1964 births Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners People from Cortland, New York Visual effects supervisors American visual effects artists {{US-film-bio-stub