Visual Effects

Kent Houston

Kent Houston (born September 1951) is a New Zealand visual effects artist who worked with the London effects company Peerless Camera Company. His early work includes Monty Python's Life of Brian and Time Bandits, and he received an Academy Award nomination for the visual effects of Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. He supervised the visual effects of 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Twelve Monkeys, The Edge, Fallen, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Vertical Limit, The Brothers Grimm, The World's Fastest Indian and The Legend of Zorro, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the visual effects of The Alienist.