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