John Knoll (Visual Effects Supervisor) Other Cast and Crew Home --- Cast Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Geoffrey Rush Stellan Skarsgard Bill Nighy Chow Yun-Fat Jack Davenport Kevin R. McNally Jonathan Pryce Naomie Harris Tom Hollander Lee Arenberg Mackenzie Crook Keith Richards David Bailie David Schofield Martin Klebba Reggie Lee Vanessa Branch Lauren Maher --------------- --- Filmmakers Gore Verbinski Jerry Bruckheimer Ted Elliott - Terry Rossio Dariusz Wolski Rick Heinrichs Penny Rose Craig Wood Stephen Rivkin Hans Zimmer John Knoll Charles Gibson John Frazier Allen Hall George Marshall Ruge Ve Neill

JOHN KNOLL (Visual Effects Supervisor) won an  Academy Award for his stunning work on “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest,” which also brought him a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award as well as six Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards, winning in every category for which the film was nominated. Knoll was also Oscar nominated for “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.”He joined Industrial Light & Magic as a technical assistant in 1986, and was soon promoted to motion control camera operator for “Captain EO.”  After three years of operating, Knoll was called upon to work on the groundbreaking digital effects for “The Abyss.” Since that time, he has been promoted to visual effects supervisor, heading up the visual effects on more than 20 feature films.  His film background, coupled with an advanced understanding of digital technologies, has made Knoll a much sought-after effects supervisor, with two Academy Award nominations for “Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones” and “Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace” (the latter earning him a BAFTA nomination as well).   Knoll's resume also includes “Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith,” “Mission to Mars,” “Deep Blue Sea,” “Star Trek: First Contact” and “Mission: Impossible,” among others. Knoll's interest in filmmaking began at an early age. Having a keen interest in model making, Knoll was mesmerized by the original “Star Wars.”  During a visit to ILM in 1978, he was able to observe first-hand the world of visual effects.  Inspired to learn more, Knoll attended the University of Southern California's Film School and earned a bachelor of arts in cinema production, while freelancing as a model maker at a variety of Los Angeles-based production facilities. During his last year at USC, Knoll took an advanced animation class where he built a motion control system from an Oxberry animation stand, an Apple II computer, a CNC milling machine controller and a bunch of industrial surplus stepper motors. Impressed by the student film generated from this class project, ILM hired Knoll as a technical assistant for motion control photography. Greatly impressed by visits to ILM's newly founded computer graphics department, Knoll took up computer graphics as a hobby. Teaming up with his brother, who was working on his doctoral thesis in computer vision at the University of Michigan, the Knoll brothers created Photoshop in 1987. 4 Other Cast and Crew   Select Here Home --- Cast Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Geoffrey Rush Stellan Skarsgard Bill Nighy Chow Yun-Fat Jack Davenport Kevin R. McNally Jonathan Pryce Naomie Harris Tom Hollander Lee Arenberg Mackenzie Crook Keith Richards David Bailie David Schofield Martin Klebba Reggie Lee Vanessa Branch Lauren Maher --------------- --- Filmmakers Gore Verbinski Jerry Bruckheimer Ted Elliott - Terry Rossio Dariusz Wolski Rick Heinrichs Penny Rose Craig Wood Stephen Rivkin Hans Zimmer John Knoll Charles Gibson John Frazier Allen Hall George Marshall Ruge Ve Neill