Hoyt Yeatman
| Hoyt Yeatman |
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| Born |
Hoyt Horatio Yeatman Jr.
(1955-01-23) January 23, 1955
San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Occupation |
Visual effects artist, visual effects supervisor |
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| Years active |
1977-present |
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Hoyt Yeatman (born January 23, 1955 in San Francisco, California, United States) is an American visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked with Jerry Bruckheimer on a number of films, including Armageddon, Con Air, and The Rock.[1] He made his directorial debut with the film G-Force.[2]
Yeatman is an alumnus of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.[3]
In 1979 Yeatman, Scott Squires, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded Dream Quest Images, a groundbreaking visual effects house, winning the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1989 for the motion control and underwater effects in The Abyss. In 1996 Dream Quest was purchased by The Walt Disney Company, which became Disney's "The Secret Lab" in 1999. The Secret Lab closed its doors in 2001.[4]
Filmography
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Film |
Role |
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| 2009 |
G-Force |
Director |
Debut film |
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| 1963-1980 |
- Emil Kosa, Jr. (1963)
- Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, and Hamilton Luske (1964)
- John Stears (1965)
- Art Cruickshank (1966)
- L. B. Abbott (1967)
- Stanley Kubrick (1968)
- Robbie Robertson (1969)
- L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1970)
- Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee (1971)
- L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1972)
- no award given (1973)
- Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, and Albert Whitlock (1974)
- Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1975)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, and Frank Van der Veer (1976)
- John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, and Robert Blalack (1977)
- Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, and Zoran Perisic (1978)
- H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, and Dennis Ayling (1979)
- Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (1980)
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| 1981-2000 |
- Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, and Joe Johnston (1981)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, and Kenneth F. Smith (1982)
- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett (1983)
- Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, and George Gibbs (1984)
- Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar, and David Berry (1985)
- Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, and Suzanne Benson (1986)
- Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup, and Kenneth F. Smith (1987)
- Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, and George Gibbs (1988)
- John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, and Dennis Skotak (1989)
- Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, and Alex Funke (1990)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr., and Robert Skotak (1991)
- Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe, and Tom Woodruff, Jr. (1992)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993)
- Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Allen Rall (1994)
- Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan, and John Cox (1995)
- Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney, and Joe Viskocil (1996)
- Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer (1997)
- Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robinson, and Kevin Mack (1998)
- John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum (1999)
- John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, and Rob Harvey (2000)
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| 2001-present |
- Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor, Mark Stetson (2001)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2002)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003)
- John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004)
- Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor (2005)
- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006)
- Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Wood (2007)
- Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, and Craig Barron (2008)
- Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
- Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb (2010)
- Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning (2011)
- Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott (2012)
- Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013)
- Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014)
- Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst (2015)
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