I hope this has not already been requested, I searched first


I would really like to see a new entry field in crew for Special Effects. I am a huge fan of horror movies and would love to be able to filter all my movies by a certain Make-Up/Special Effects member.

I'm very happy that the current crew roles are standardized. I do not want free form (user defined) role names. I do not want to make a difference between "director", "directed by", "regie", "a film by" etc. when all I want to know is who has directed the film. I would even go so far as to claim it unreasonable to make a difference between "cinematographer" and "director of photography". Both are actually the same,  both are the same job which has of course envolded during history and also changed its name.

I want to make sure, with the help of those standard role names, that a skin (called HTML window now) or a report could show a subset of the crew, like only show directors, no matter whether they are credited as "director" or "directed by".

I would support to add some (few) new role names ("casting" and "costumes" spring to my mind). But I would not like to go down the road for full crew credits as credited, loosing the semantics of the standard roles.

One way to deal with this is to not make user defined credits part of the contributions.