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Media Guest of Honor:Â Trent Claus
Trent Claus is an award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor with Lola VFX. He has worked on over 120 feature films, including 19 Academy Award nominees for Best Visual Effects (4 winners), 10 nominees for Best Picture (1 winner), and with a cumulative worldwide box-office of over 47 billion dollars.
Trent is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Visual Effects Society (VES). In 2012, he was awarded the VES Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture for his groundbreaking work on “Captain America: The First Avenger”. In 2020 he was nominated for Outstanding Compositing once again for “Captain Marvel”.
Beginning with the first Marvel Studios film “Iron Man”, Trent has contributed to 23 of their films and 4 streaming shows, including working as a VFX Supervisor on “Avengers: Endgame”, “Captain Marvel”, “Captain America: Civil War”, “Avengers: Infinity War”, and others. Recently, he has been working with Lucasfilm and Disney+ to bring to life Star Wars shows, including “Ahsoka”, “The Mandalorian”, “Obi-Wan Kenobi”, and “The Book of Boba Fett”.
Other notable films on which he has worked include: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, “The Social Network”, “Prometheus”, “Star Trek”, “Avatar”, and “Blade Runner”.