Robert Swarthe
Robert Swarthe | |
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| Born | September 6, 1942 |
| Occupation | Special effects artist |
| Years active | 1968-1983 |
Robert Swarthe (born September 6, 1942) is a special effects artist who started out directing short films. He has two Academy Award nominations.
Academy Award nominations[]
- 48th Academy Awards – Nominated in the category of Best Animated short, Kick Me, lost to Great.[1][2]
- 52nd Academy Awards – Nominated in the category of Best Visual Effects, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nomination shared with John Dykstra, Grant McCune, David K. Stewart, Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich. Lost to Alien.[3]
Preservation[]
The Academy Film Archive preserved Kick Me and The Unicycle Race by Swarthe.[4]
Filmography[]
As director[]
- The Unicycle Race (1966)
- K-9000: A Space Oddity (1968)[5] with Robert Mitchell [6]
- Kick Me (1975)
As special effects artist[]
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
- One from the Heart (1982)
- The Outsiders (1983)
In addition he appeared in a making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind video in 2001.
See also[]
- Norman Mclaren
- Drawn on film
References[]
- ^ "The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1975 -". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1968 -". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ Robert Mitchell on IMDB
External links[]
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Categories:
- Special effects people
- Living people
- American film directors
- 1942 births
- American animators
- American experimental filmmakers