Dave Shirk

{{Short description|Visual effects supervisor}}

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Dave Shirk is an American visual effects supervisor. Shirk and his fellow visual effects artists are won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2013 film Gravity.{{Cite news|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/86th-winners.html |title=The 86th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 27, 2014 |work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=AMPAS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001025332/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/86th-winners.html |archive-date=October 1, 2014 }}

He was also nominated for the 2018 film Ready Player One.{{Cite news|url=https://lancasteronline.com/features/where-to-watch-academy-award-best-picture-nominees--/article_e17ef31a-1e5b-11e9-ae58-1f4ea90efd90.html |title=Where to watch Academy Award Best Picture nominees -- and Lancaster native's special effects Oscar nod |date=January 22, 2019 |access-date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=Lancaster Online}}