Steve Preeg is an American Academy Award-winning special effects artist. He won at the

81st Academy Awards The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 ...

for the film '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'', in the category of Best Visual Effects. He shared his Oscar with

Eric Barba Eric Barba is a visual effects supervisor for television, film, and commercial advertising. After studying at the Art Center College of Design, Barba began his career at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Imaging as a digital artist on ''SeaQuest 2032'' a ...

Craig Barron Craig Barron (born April 6, 1961)According to the State of California. ''California Birth Index, 1905–1995''. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable aMyHeritage/ref> is an Ameri ...

and

Burt Dalton Burt Dalton is a visual effects supervisor. Dalton and his fellow visual effects artists are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2013 film ''Star Trek Into Darkness''. He has won 1 Oscar for '' The Curious Case of Benjami ...

. He graduated in 1989 from Los Alamos High School.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (2013) * '' The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2011) * '' TRON: Legacy'' (2010) * '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008) * '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' (2007) * ''

Flags of Our Fathers ''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2000) is a book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about his father, Navy corpsman John Bradley, and five United States Marines, who were made famous by Joe Rosenthal’s '' Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'' photograph. Th ...

'' (2006) * '' King Kong'' (2005) * ''

I, Robot ''I, Robot'' is a fixup (compilation) novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines ''Super Science Stories'' and ''Astounding Science Fiction'' betw ...

'' (2004) * '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (2003) * '' The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (2002) * '' Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'' (2001) * ''

Beowulf ''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The ...

'' (1999) * ''

Ri¢hie Ri¢h's Christmas Wish ''Richie Rich's Christmas Wish'' (also known as ''Richie Rich 2'') is a 1998 direct-to-video American film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Richie Rich. It is a stand-alone sequel to the 1994 film '' Richie Rich'', starring David Ga ...

'' (1998) * '' Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace'' (1996)

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