Robert Legato
Robert "Rob" Legato (* 1956 ) is a VFX Supervisor who won an Oscar in 1998 for Titanic , 2012 for Hugo Cabret and 2017 for The Jungle Book .
Life
He grew up in Asbury Park , Monmouth County , New Jersey and went to Ocean Township High School . Robert Legato then completed a master's degree in cinematography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara , before becoming a VFX supervisor for an episode of the television series Twilight Zone in 1986 . From 1987 to 1992 he worked for the team that turned Starship Enterprise - The Next Century . He was responsible for the special effects in about half of the episodes . In 1993 he worked on the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine before moving to the special effects company Digital Domain in 1994 . In 1996 he was VFX Supervisor for the cinematic implementation of the near-catastrophe of the Apollo 13 moon mission , for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
In 1997 the film Titanic followed , for which he received the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1998 . Shortly thereafter, he moved from Digital Domain to Sony Pictures Imageworks . In 2004 he worked for the first time with Martin Scorsese on the production of the feature film Aviator . Another collaboration followed at Departed - Unter Feinden , the documentary Shine a Light and George Harrison: Living in the Material World . In 2012 he received his second Oscar for the film Hugo Cabret together with Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning . The third award followed in 2017.
In 2017 he made his directorial debut with the film The Eloise Asylum ( Eloise ). Before that, he had already worked as a director for television in the 1990s.
Filmography (visual effects)
- 1986: Twilight Zone (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1987–1992: Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century (TV series, 63 episodes)
- 1993: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV series, 19 episodes)
- 1994: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
- 1995: Apollo 13
- 1997: Titanic
- 1998: Armageddon - The Last Judgment (Armageddon)
- 2000: Castaway - Lost (Castaway)
- 2000: What Lies Beneath (What Lies Beneath)
- 2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- 2003: Bad Boys II
- 2004: Aviator (The Aviator)
- 2006: Departed - The Departed (The Departed)
- 2006: The Good Shepherd (The Good Shepherd)
- 2007: The Key to Reserva
- 2007: Nanny Diaries (The Nanny Diaries)
- 2008: Standard Operating Procedure
- 2008: Shine a Light
- 2009: Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar)
- 2010: Shutter Island
- 2011: Hugo Cabret (Hugo)
- 2011: George Harrison: Living in the Material World
- 2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
- 2016: The Jungle Book
Web links
- Robert Legato in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NJ's Robert Legato is special-effects wizard behind 'Hugo' . In: Dailyrecord.com . February 26, 2012. Accessed on January 9, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Program for the Stanford Education Presidential Symposium in February 2000 . Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ Brooks Institute at StudentAdvisor.com . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ↑ VFX Supervisor Rob Legato for Hugo on StudioDaily.com . February 21, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Legato, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Legato, Rob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American special effects artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |