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John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke and Rob Harvey

Visual Effects

GLADIATOR
John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke
and Rob Harvey

Speech
Nelson: Wow! Thank you, members of the Academy for this great honor. First and foremost, I would like to thank our director Ridley Scott for his genius, vision, leadership and trust. I would like to thank all my team at Mill Film London, who did the visual effects. Tim Burke, Rob Harvey, Laurent Huguenolt, Nikki Penny, Emma Norton, Nancy St. John, to Bill Schultz, a ton of other people I'm just forgetting right now. I would like to thank our great practical and prosthetics effect team with Paul and Neil Corbould, Trevor Wood, John Evans, Michelle Taylor and Dave Hunter. I would like to thank everyone at Dreamworks and Universal. They're a class act, a pleasure to work with. I would like to thank my wife Debra, my son Miles, my mom in heaven, my dad in and family in Detroit. Happy birthday, Dad, I love you.

Special Thanks
John Nelson thanks:
Thank you Academy members for this great honor.

First and foremost, I'd like to thank our director Ridley Scott for his genius, vision, leadership and trust. I'd like to thank my Visual Effects team at Mill Film London: Tim Burke, Rob Harvey, Laurant Huguenolt, Nikki Penny, Emma Norton, Graham Andrew, Nancy St. John, Wes Sewell, Bill Schultz, Scott Anderson, Dave Lomax, Chris Shaw, Steven Hall, Robin Shenfield, and all the artists at the Mill. I'd like to thank our great practical and prosthetic effects team of Neil Corbould, with Paul and Ian Corbould, Trevor Wood, John Evans, Michelle Taylor, and Dave Hunter. I'd like to thank everyone at Dreamworks and Universal, they are a class act and a pleasure to work with. I'd like to thank Pietro Scalia, John Mathieson, Arthur Max, Branko Lustig, Doug Wick, Steve Molen, Marty Cohen, Paul Hook, my wife Deborah, my son Miles, my Mom in heaven, my Dad and family in Detroit, happy birthday Dad, thank you.

Rob Harvey thanks:
I would like to thank my wife Penny for her love and support.

Grahame and Alison at Lola, John, Catherine and Alec, Michael, Gail and Chloe. Sarah Simon and Allie. Pauline and Ray. Hani and Gillian. Bill Schultz, Nikki Penny, Tim Caplan, Scott Anderson, Meg Aukdon. Polly and Dave, Sean Broughton, Dog, Grant and Karen, Belinda and John, Adrian, Mel and Georgia, Kai and James, Adam Seeley, Alex and Caroline, Sir Paul Smith, Mark and Lisa, Dawn, Jill, Josh and Eden, my grandmother, Paulo Dicanio, Julie, Harry and Lola, David Hay and Phil Dupee, Sylvain Despretz, Stuart Jamieson.

Everyone at Dreamworks and Universal.
Everyone at RSA.
Everyone who worked on the film at Mill Film.
Everyone at Smoke and Mirrors.

Finally to Mum. I hope Dad would have been proud

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