Eric Saindon

Eric Saindon (born December 5) is an American visual effects supervisor for movies, including The Green Knight, Pete's Dragon, The Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), Avatar, Alita: Battle Angel, Night at the Museum, X-Men: The Last Stand and worked on others such as, King Kong, I, Robot, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Over 10 Academy Awards have been given to movies he has been a part of, with 2 Oscar and 3 BAFTA nominations himself. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Volker Engel and Douglas Smith (1996)
Ken Ralston (1997)
Ellen Somers (1998)
Jerome Chen, John Dykstra, Henry F. Anderson III and Eric Allard (1999)
John Nelson (2000)
Chris Godfrey (2001)
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness, Robert Stromberg and Dan Sudick (2003)
Andy Brown and Kirsty Millar / Robert Legato, Peter G. Travers, Matthew Gratzner and R. Bruce Steinheimer (2004)
John Knoll and Hal Hickel (2005)
John Knoll and Hal Hickel (2006)
Chris Watts, Grant Freckelton, Derek Wentworth and Daniel Leduc (2007)
Chris Godfrey, James E. Price and Diana Giorgiutti (2008)
Volker Engel, Marc Weigert and Mike Vézina (2009)
Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips (2010)
Robert Legato, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning and Adam Watkins (2011)
Jim Gibbs, Kevin Baillie, Michael Lantieri and Ryan Tudhope (2012)
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (2013)
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon and Matt Kutcher (2014)
Jim Gibbs, Kevin Baillie, Viktor Muller and Sébastien Moreau (2015)
Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez (2016)
John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover and Gerd Nefzer (2017)
Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack and Dan Sudick (2018)
Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon (2019)
Scott R. Fisher and Andrew Jackson (2020)