After working as a model maker, animator and cameraman at Coast / Cascade Effects in North Hollywood, a place which provided the first work experience for many of the luminaries who went on to form George Lucas' brainchild, Industrial Light and Magic, Kozachik was interviewing for a job at ILM, surrounded by top end VFX supervisors shooting him all sorts of technical questions. VFX legend Ken Ralston, who worked on the first run of STAR WARS and STAR TREK movies (among countless other blockbusters) was listening to it all quietly, with his arms folded, before eventually saying "I've got one question for you: what was Ray Harryhausen's best monster?" "Apparently the Cyclops from 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD was the right answer," Kozachik reminisces, "because Ken got up, said 'you're hired!' and walked out of the room." As a visual effects supervisor and stop-motion cameraman at ILM who entered American film with DREAMSCAPE (1984), Kozachik's other credits include HOWARD THE DUCK and STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (both 1986), INNERSPACE (1987), WILLOW (1988), GHOSTBUSTERS II (1989), HUDSON HAWK (1991), ROBOCOP 3 and TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (both 1993), JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1996), MONKEYBONE (2001), THE CORPSE BRIDE (2005), and CORALINE (scheduled for 2008: cinematographer). For a detailed view of Kozachik's work, visit infilm.com.au.  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 1993: TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (w. Eric Leighton, Ariel Velasco Shaw & Gordon Baker) 1 nomination