Their work on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Walking Dead have netted them multiple awards and nominations.
[1] Nicotero and Berger met while performing special makeup effects under Tom Savini on George A. Romero's zombie film Day of the Dead.
[4] Around the same time, Romero recommended KNB to producer Debra Hill for Gross Anatomy, a comedy film about medical students.
[6] The realistic-looking cadavers they created got them the attention of Kevin Costner, who hired them to make animatronic buffalo for Dances with Wolves.
[5] Hoping to break into further mainstream films, KNB contacted Rob Reiner when they heard he was adapting Misery.
[8] In the early 1990s, they continued their collaboration with Sam Raimi, working on Army of Darkness, the sequel to Evil Dead II.
In return, Kurtzman promised KNB would perform special makeup effects for Reservoir Dogs, which turned into that film's torture scene.
[11] Following the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, many artists worried that computer-generated imagery might overtake the industry, forcing out practical effects.
[15] In 2006, KNB created animatronics for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was initially going to be completely digital.