About John Nelson
VES Award-winning, Emmy-nominated Senior VFX with over 2 decades of on-set and post-production experience across feature and episodic work, from set extensions to full CG environments. Recent credits include Netflix’s The Residence, Unfrosted, Beauty in Black, Don’t Ever Wonder, and Promised Land, Lionsgate’s Hurry Up Tomorrow, HBO’s Westworld, AMC’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, and CBS’s Star Trek: Picard, alongside long-running series work on NCIS: New Orleans, Magnum P.I., Hawaii Five-0, and MacGyver.
Currently in production on Cupertino.
Photos
On the LED stage 
With production 
Rigged up on set 
VES Award — The Residence
Awards
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Winner · 2026
VES Award
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
The Residence · “The Fall of the House of Usher”
With Seth Hill, Tesa Kubicek and Gabriel Vargas
Details about the VES Award 2026 -
Nominee · 2025
Emmy
Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode
The Residence · “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Details about the Emmy 2025
Selected credits
- Cupertino
- Don’t Ever Wonder
- The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
- The Residence
- Unfrosted
- Beauty in Black
- Hurry Up Tomorrow
- Westworld
- Star Trek: Picard
- Magnum P.I.
- Hawaii Five-0
- MacGyver