Karen Goulekas

Karen Goulekas is a visual effects artist.^[1]

Karen Goulekas
Occupation	Visual Effects Artist

Goulekas jointly won two Emmy Awards for her work covering the 1992 Summer Olympics.^[2] She has jointly won the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects twice, for The Fifth Element in 1998^[3] and The Day After Tomorrow in 2005.^[4] She jointly won the Saturn Award for Best Special Effects in 1998 for the film Godzilla,^[5] and jointly won the Best Single Visual Effect of the Year at the 3rd annual Visual Effects Society Awards for the tidal wave in The Day After Tomorrow.^[6]

Filmography

• Last Action Hero (1993)
• True lies (1994)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Strange Days (1995)
• T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Titanic (1997)
• Godzilla (1998)
• Spiderman (2002)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Venom (2005)
• 10,000 BC (2008)
• Obsessed (2009)
• MacGruber (2010)
• Piranha 3D (2010)
• Green Lantern (2011)
• 30 Minutes or Less (2011)
• Seeking Justice (2011)
• Looper (2012)
• Bloodline (2013)
• Don Jon (2013)
• Last Knights (2015)
• Mohenjo Daro (2016)

Bibliography

• Goulekas, Karen (2001). Visual Effects in A Digital World: A Comprehensive Glossary of Over 7000 Visual Effects Terms. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 978-0-1229-3785-9.