BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects

This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for movies, television, children's movies and television, and interactive media.


  • 2004 - The Day After Tomorrow - Karen E. Goulekas, Neil Corbould, Greg Strause, Remo Balcells
    • Spider-Man 2 – John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, John Frazier
    • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – John Richardson, Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, Bill George, Karl Mooney
    • Shi mian mai fu – Angie Lam, Andy Brown, Kirsty Millar, Luke Hetherington
    • The Aviator – Robert Legato, Peter G. Travers; Matthew Gratzner (I); R. Bruce Steinheimer
  • 2000 - The Perfect Storm - Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti, Habib Zargarpour, Tim Alexander
    • Chicken Run – Paddy Eason, Mark Nelmes, Dave Alex Riddett
    • Gladiator – John Nelson, Tim Burke, Rob Harvey, Neil Corbould
    • Vertical Limit – Kent Houston, Tricia Henry Ashford, Neil Corbould, John Paul Docherty, Dion Hatch
    • Wo hu cang long – Rob Hodgson, Leo Lo Jonathan, F. Styrlund, Bessie Cheuk, Travis Baumann
  • 1999 - The Matrix - John Gaeta, Steve Courtley, Janek Sirrs, Jon Thum
    • A Bug's Life – Bill Reeves Eben Ostby, Rick Sayre, Sharon Calahan
    • The Mummy – John Andrew Berton Jr., Daniel Jeannette, Ben Snow, Chris Corbould
    • Sleepy Hollow – Jim Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams, Paddy Eason
    • Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace – John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, Rob Coleman
  • 1998 - Saving Private Ryan - Stefen Fangmeier, Roger Guyett, Neil Corbould
    • Antz – Philippe Gluckman, John Bell, Kendal Cronkhite, Ken Bielenberg
    • Babe: Pig in the City – Bill Westenhofer, Neal Scanlan, Chris Godfrey (II), Grahame Andrew
    • The Truman Show – Michael J. McAlister, Brad Kuehn, Craig Barron, Peter Chesney
  • 1997 - The Fifth Element - Mark Stetson, Karen E. Goulekas, Nick Allder, Neil Corbould, Nick Dudman
    • Men in Black – Eric Brevig, Rick Baker, Rob Coleman, Peter Chesney
    • Titanic – Robert Legato, Mark A. Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer
    • The Borrowers – Peter Chiang
  • 1995 - Apollo 13 - Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney, Leslie Ekker
    • Babe – Scott E. Anderson, Neal Scanlan, John Cox, Chris Chitty, Charles Gibson
    • GoldenEye – Chris Corbould, Derek Meddings, Brian Smithies
    • Waterworld – Michael J. McAlister, Brad Kuehn, Robert Spurlock, Martin Bresin
  • 1994 - Forrest Gump – Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, Doug Chiang, Allen Hall
    • The Mask – Scott Squires, Steve 'Spaz' Williams, Tom Bertino, Jon Farhat
    • Speed – Boyd Shermis, John Frazier (I), Ron Brinkmann, Richard E. Hollander
    • True Lies – John Bruno, Thomas L. Fisher, Jacques Stroweis, Pat McClung, Jamie Dixon
  • 1993 - Jurassic Park - Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, Michael Lantieri
    • Aladdin – Don Paul, Steve Goldberg
    • Bram Stoker's Dracula – Roman Coppola, Gary Gutierrez, Michael Lantieri, Gene Warren, Jr.
    • The Fugitive – William Mesa, Roy Arbogast
  • 1992 - Death Becomes Her - Michael Lantieri, Ken Ralston, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff, Jr., Doug Chiang, Douglas Smythe
  • 1987 - The Witches of Eastwick - Michael Lantieri, Michael Owens, Ed Jones, Bruce Walters
    • The Fly – Chris Walas, Jon Berg, Louis Craig, Hoyt Yeatman
    • Full Metal Jacket – John Evans
    • Little Shop of Horrors – Bran Ferren, Martin Gutteridge, Lyle Conway, Richard Conway
  • 1986 - Aliens - Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson, Stan Winston
    • The Mission – Peter Hutchinson
    • Dreamchild – Duncan Kenworthy, John Stephenson, Chris Carr
    • Labyrinth – Roy Field, Brian Froud, George Gibbs, Tony Dunsterville

Other websites

  • "Awards Database – The BAFTA Site". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved June 16, 2012.