Alec Dougal Gillis is an Academy Award-winning American special effects artist and actor who served as part of the creature effects crew on the 1986 film Aliens, the 1992 film Alien3, the 1997 film Alien Resurrection, the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator, the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the 2018 film The Predator. He also appeared in a cameo as an unnamed technician in Alien vs. Predator, although he was not credited for the role. In 1988, Gillis co-founded Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) with Tom Woodruff, Jr., and the company has since provided creature effects for Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Gillis's work has won an Academy Award for Visual Effects (for Death Becomes Her, although he was not listed on the official nomination) and a BAFTA. For his work on Alien3, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, a BAFTA and a Saturn Award.
37 movies · 4 shows
Cringe
2025·0.0
Eulogy to Us
2023·0.0
Prey
2022·7.7
Oats Studios: Volume 1
2021·6.3
Witches Midnight
2021·2.0
Bad President - Kenya
2020·5.1
Tremors: Making Perfection
2020·6.4
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
2019·7.5
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
2019·6.8
Bad President - All My Sh*t
2017·4.5
Bad President - Oil Spill
2017·4.8
Rakka
2017·7.0
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
2015·7.2
The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
2015·2.7
Leviathan: Monster Melting Pot
2014·0.0
Men in Suits
2012·8.0
Astronaut: The Last Push
2012·5.3
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011·8.0
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
2010·8.3
Chiller 13: The Decade's Scariest Movie Moments
2010·0.0
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
2009·6.2
Monster Squad Forever!
2007·7.4
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005·5.3
Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
2005·8.0
Elektra
2005·5.0
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004·6.0
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004·7.0
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
2003·7.5
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003·7.8
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
2002·0.0
Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'
2002·8.0
Starship Troopers: Know Your Foe
2002·0.0
Making Jumanji: The Realm of Imagination
2000·0.0
Lions and Monkeys and Pods... Oh My!: The Special Effects of 'Jumanji'
2000·0.0
The Making of ‘Tremors’
1998·7.5
Alien Resurrection
1997·6.2
Aliens
1986·8.0