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Dave Shirk

Visual Effects

Born January 1, 2000

Also known as David Shirk

IMDb

Biography

Dave Shirk is an American visual effects supervisor. Shirk and his fellow visual effects team won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2013 film Gravity. He was also nominated for the 2018 film Ready Player One. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Shirk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy Award — Best Visual Effects · 2014
  • Academy Award — Best Visual Effects · 2025 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Visual Effects · 2019 · nominated
  • Academy Award — Best Visual Effects · 2014 · nominated

Filmography9 titles

Spider-Noir

2026Animation Supervisor

Ready Player One

2018Animation Supervisor

Gravity

2013Animation Supervisor

Obi-Wan Kenobi

2022Animation Supervisor

Wicked

2024Animation Supervisor

Mank

2020Animation Supervisor

Wicked: For Good

2025Animation Supervisor

Dolittle

2020Animation Supervisor

Mars Needs Moms

2011Animation Supervisor