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John Nelson graduated with high distinction from the University of Michigan in 1976 with a Bachelors in General Studies. After college, he made several films that won awards at film festivals and moved to California in 1979 to work for 'Robert Abel and Associates [us]' first as a cameraman, then as a technical director and finally as a director. He was nominated for Clio awards six times, winning twice. In 1987, he moved to Germany to help set up the German company Mental Images GMBH. Upon returning to the US John went to work for Industrial Light & Magic where he animated several key scenes in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), most notably where the shotgunned head of the chrome terminator re-seals itself.

In 1991, John VFX supervised Stay Tuned (1992) for Rhythm & Hues Studios, and then In the Line of Fire (1993) at Sony Pictures Imageworks. He also did My Life (1993/I), The Pelican Brief (1993), Wolf (1994), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Judge Dredd (1995), The Cable Guy (1996) and City of Angels (1998) at Imageworks.

In 1998 Mr. Nelson left Sony to Senior VFX supervise Gladiator (2000) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (2001). After K19: The Widowmaker (2002)_ and the Centropolis sections of The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Mr. Nelson supervised I, Robot (2004) for which he was nominated again for the Academy Award (2004). John prepped Hancock (2008) before beginning production on Iron Man (2008). He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Visual Effects Society and the the International Cinematographers Guild.

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