Cameron Waldbauer
Cameron Waldbauer is a Canadian Academy Award-nominated Special Effects Supervisor who worked on Star Trek Beyond.
Marvel franchise
Waldbauer received his Academy Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Visual Effects in 2015 for his work on X-Men: Days of Future Past, directed and produced by Bryan Singer, starring Patrick Stewart, with Famke Janssen and Kelsey Grammer. [1] He shared this nomination as well as VES Award nomination in the category Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture the same year with fellow visual effects supervisor Lou Pecora. Waldbauer also received a BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best Special Visual Effects in 2015.
Prior to X-Men: Days of Future Past, Waldbauer worked as special effects supervisor and/or special effects coordinator on X2 (2003, directed by Bryan Singer, starring Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Bruce Davison with Roger R. Cross and produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter), Fantastic Four (2005, produced by and featuring Stan Lee and Ralph Winter), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer and Rebecca Romijn, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal, Aaron Stanford, Julian Christopher, John Pyper-Ferguson and produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007, with Doug Jones and Zach Grenier, produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter and edited by William Hoy), and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, with Patrick Stewart and produced by Stan Lee, Ralph Winter and Bryan Singer).
Waldbauer also worked as Visual Effects Supervisor on X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), again with director, writer and producer Bryan Singer.
Other work
Also credited as Cam Waldbauer, he started his career in the special effects department in the late 1990s. He was part of the special effects crew of Firestorm (1998, cinematography by Stephen F. Windon), Shanghai Noon (2000, cinematography by Dan Mindel), Replicant (2001, with Paul McGillion and production design by Andrew Neskoromny), The Shipment (2001), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002), I Spy (2002, with Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell and Gary Cole), I, Robot (2004, with Bruce Greenwood and James Cromwell), and Eragon (2006, starring Ed Speleers),
In 2007, Waldbauer worked as special effects coordinator on Bionic Woman. The eight episodes of the series featured regular Miguel Ferrer and featured guest stars Roger R. Cross, Brian Markinson and Julian Christopher, co-producer Stephen Welke and visual effects by Doug Drexler, Adam Lambert, Edward L. Williams, Gary Hutzel and Kyle Toucher.
Further assignments include Quantum of Solace (2008), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, with Christopher Plummer), 2012 (2009), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009, with Billy Burke and Michael Welch), The A-Team (2010), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, with Simon Pegg, produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Tommy Harper, Ben Rosenblatt and Paul Schwake, music by Michael Giacchino, casting by April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg and costume design by Michael Kaplan), White House Down (2013), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), and Elysium (2013, starring Matt Damon, with Faran Tahir and Julian Christopher). Waldbauer was also featured in several DVD/Blu-ray specials of Elysium.
Waldbauer later worked as special effects supervisor on The Revenant (2015, with Tom Hardy) and Warcraft (2016, with Clancy Brown).