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Visual effects supervisor
Scott Squires (born November 7, 1956) is a visual effects supervisor and director.
His first film project was
Close Encounters of the Third Kind , where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect.
In 1979 Squires,
Hoyt Yeatman , Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded
Dream Quest Images , a visual effects house, which was later purchased by Disney. Squires was president of Dream Quest and left in 1985 to work for
Industrial Light and Magic . Squires worked as visual effects supervisor and commercial director at ILM for 20 years and is now a freelance director and visual effects supervisor.
While at ILM, Squires received an Academy Technical Award for Input Scanning and received Academy Award nominations for
The Mask ,
Dragonheart , and
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace .
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1970s 1980s 1990s
Stan Winston (1991)
Ken Ralston , Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992)
Dennis Muren ,
Stan Winston ,
Phil Tippett , and
Michael Lantieri (1993)
John Bruno (1994)
Stan Parks (1995)
Volker Engel ,
Clay Pinney ,
Douglas Smith , and
Joe Viskocil (1996)
Phil Tippett ,
Scott E. Anderson , Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr.,
John Richardson (1997)
Volker Engel ,
Patrick Tatopoulos ,
Karen E. Goulekas , and
Clay Pinney (1998)
Rob Coleman ,
John Knoll ,
Dennis Muren , and
Scott Squires (1999)
2000s
Scott E. Anderson ,
Craig Hayes ,
Scott Stokdyk , and
Stan Parks (2000)
Dennis Muren ,
Scott Farrar ,
Stan Winston ,
Michael Lantieri (2001)
Rob Coleman ,
Pablo Helman ,
John Knoll , and
Ben Snow (2002)
Jim Rygiel ,
Joe Letteri ,
Randall William Cook , and
Alex Funke (2003)
John Dykstra ,
Scott Stokdyk ,
Anthony LaMolinara , and
John Frazier (2004)
Joe Letteri ,
Richard Taylor ,
Christian Rivers , and
Brian Van't Hul (2005)
John Knoll ,
Hal T. Hickel ,
Charles Gibson , and
Allen Hall (2006)
Scott Farrar ,
Scott Benza ,
Russell Earl , and
John Frazier (2007)
Nick Davis ,
Chris Corbould ,
Timothy Webber , and
Paul J. Franklin (2008)
Joe Letteri ,
Stephen Rosenbaum ,
Richard Baneham , and
Andrew R. Jones (2009)
2010s
Chris Corbould ,
Andrew Lockley ,
Paul J. Franklin , and
Peter Bebb (2010)
Dan Lemmon ,
Joe Letteri ,
R. Christopher White , and
Daniel Barrett (2011)
Janek Sirrs ,
Jeff White ,
Guy Williams , and
Dan Sudick (2012)
Tim Webber ,
Chris Lawrence ,
Dave Shirk , and
Neil Corbould (2013)
Paul J. Franklin ,
Andrew Lockley ,
Ian Hunter , and
Scott R. Fisher (2014)
Roger Guyett ,
Patrick Tubach ,
Neal Scanlan , and
Chris Corbould (2015)
John Knoll ,
Mohen Leo ,
Hal Hickel , and
Neil Corbould (2016)
Christopher Townsend ,
Guy Williams ,
Jonathan Fawkner , and
Dan Sudick (2017)
Dan DeLeeuw ,
Matt Aitken ,
Russell Earl , and
Dan Sudick (2018/19)
Roger Guyett ,
Neal Scanlan ,
Patrick Tubach , and Dominic Tuohy (2019/20)
2020s Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.
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