Craig Hammack
Overall VFX Supervisor, Lilo & Stitch, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)
Craig Hammack is a BAFTA Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor who has worked on a myriad of features, including Deepwater Horizon, Captain Marvel, and Tomorrowland. Hammack was recently the production visual effects supervisor on Disney’s upcoming live-action Lilo & Stitch. He was responsible for collaborating with director Dean Fleischer Camp and the production to plan and execute all phases of the visual effects. The work included character design, overseeing on-set teams to ensure successful integration, directing an aerial unit, and supervising multiple vendors globally to complete over 1,600 live-action hybrid visual effects shots.
He also oversaw ILM’s effects on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. In 2018, Hammack was honored with the BAFTA Film Award for Best Special Visual Effects for his work on Black Panther, Ryan Coogler’s first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Previously, he received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for his contributions to Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon.
Earlier in his career, Hammack oversaw the research and development of technologies used for the digital effects in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. His contributions to the film earned him two VES Award nominations.
SELECT CREDITS
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2025 – LILO & STITCH – Production Visual Effects Supervisor
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2022 – BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Visual Effects Supervisor
Academy Award Nomination – Best Achievement in Visual Effects
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2021 – RED NOTICE – Visual Effects Supervisor
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2021 – BLACK WIDOW – Visual Effects Supervisor
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2019 – CAPTAIN MARVEL – Visual Effects Supervisor
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2018 – SKYSCRAPER – Visual Effects Supervisor
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2018 – BLACK PANTHER – Visual Effects Supervisor
BAFTA Film Award Winner – Best Special Effects in Visual Effects
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2016 – DEEPWATER HORIZON – Visual Effects Supervisor
Academy Award Nomination – Best Visual Effects
VES Award Winner – Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
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2014 – TOMORROWLAND – Visual Effects Supervisor
HPA Award Nomination – Outstanding Visual Effects in a Feature Film