Photo: Todd Wawrychuk © A.M.P.A.S.

Visual effects supervisor who began his career in the special effects industry as a camera assistant for George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. After working on most of the major effects films to come out of the 70's and 80's, starting with THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980), Barron started his own company, Matte World Digital, an effects house that specializes in realistic digital mattes and miniatures for features and television, in 1989. Other notable credits at Matte World Digital include PRANCER (1989), ROBOCOP 2, ARACHNOPHOBIA and AVALON (all 1990), ROBIN HOOD, PRINCE OF THIEVES and STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (both 1991), FAR AND AWAY, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA and HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (all 1992), SOMMERSBY, HOCUS POCUS and DEMOLITION MAN (all 1993), CITY SLICKERS II: THE LEGEND OF CURLY'S GOLD, THE SHADOW, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and THE JUNGLE BOOK (all 1994), HACKERS and CASINO (both 1995), BROKEN ARROW, DIABOLIQUE, INDEPENDENCE DAY and STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT (all 1996), CON AIR, TITANIC and KUNDUN (all 1997), THE NEWTON BOYS, THE TRUMAN SHOW, ARMAGEDDON and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (all 1998), THE INSIDER and THE GREEN MILE (both 1999), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, X-MEN and DR. T & THE WOMEN (all 2000), THE MUMMY RETURNS, CATS & DOGS and THE MAJESTIC (all 2001), MANASSAS: END OF INNOCENCE, MURDER BY NUMBERS and THE RING (all 2002), DOWN WITH LOVE and THE LAST SAMURAI (both 2003), THE ALAMO and CATWOMAN (both 2004), GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST and INVINCIBLE (both 2006), and ZODIAC (2007).  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 1992: BATMAN RETURNS (w. Michael Fink, John Bruno & Dennis Skotak) 1 nomination