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Joanna Johnston Costume Design Deborah La Mia Denaver Makeup Artist Steve Starkey Producer, Second Unit Director Rick Porras Associate Producer Michael Goldenberg Screenplay Bud Davis Stunt Coordinator Nick Phillips Camera Operator Michael L. Fink Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Zemeckis Director, Producer Randy Thom Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Designer Scott Levy Sound Recordist Alan Silvestri Original Music Composer Robert Weaver CG Artist François Duhamel Still Photographer William Ross Orchestrator Arthur Schmidt Editor Ann Druyan Co-Producer, Story Tom Johnson Sound Re-Recording Mixer Jerome Chen CG Supervisor Matt Aitken CG Supervisor Carl Sagan Novel, Co-Producer, Story Tim Monich Dialect Coach Michael Silvers Dialogue Editor Victoria Burrows Casting Ken Ralston Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Stephen Rosenbaum Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Sands Sound Re-Recording Mixer Lynda Obst Executive Producer Peter Jackson Additional Visual Effects Kim Robert Koscki Stunts Gary Rizzo Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer James V. Hart Screenplay Bruce Moriarty First Assistant Director Gary Archer Prosthetics Jay Caputo Stunts Don Burgess Director of Photography Cellin Gluck Second Assistant Director Steve Boeddeker Sound Effects Editor