Danny Gordon Taylor

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| name = Danny Gordon Taylor

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| birth_date = May 21, 1950

| birth_place = North Tonawanda, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and given age|2019|7|10|69}}

| death_place = Lapeer, Michigan, U.S.

| occupation = Visual effects artist

| yearsactive = 1994–2019

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Danny Gordon Taylor (May 21, 1950 – July 10, 2019){{Cite web |title=Oscar-Nominated VFX Artist Danny Gordon Taylor Dies Age 69 |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2019/08/oscar-nominated-vfx-artist-danny-gordon-taylor-dies-age-69/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Animation Magazine}} was an Animation Supervisor in the Visual Effects industry. He started his career at Industrial Light and Magic in 1994 working on "The Mask" and animated or supervised on several ground breaking visual effects movies through to "Alita: Battle Angel" in 2019. He worked at several of the leading visual effects houses including ILM, Digital Domain and Weta Digital.

On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Oscar for the film Real Steel.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/84/nominees.html |title=The 84th Academy Awards (2012) Nominees |accessdate=September 3, 2014|work=oscars.org}} He died in 2019, aged 69.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/danny-gordon-taylor-dead-oscar-nominated-vfx-artist-was-69-1230130 |title=Danny Gordon Taylor, Oscar-Nominated VFX Artist, Dies at 69 |accessdate=August 8, 2019|work=hollywoodreporter.com}}