Scott Squires

Scott Squires (* 1956 ) is a special effects artist who has been nominated three times for an Oscar in the category of Best Visual Effects .

Life

He grew up in a small town in Indiana , where he worked as a newspaper photographer and projectionist while in high school . After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles to work as Douglas Trumbull's assistant on the feature film Close Encounters of the Third Kind .

In 1982 he co-founded the special effects company Dream Quest Images , which was later bought by the Walt Disney Company . After six years he switched to Industrial Light & Magic where he worked for twenty years as a VFX supervisor and commercial manager. During that time, he was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects , 1995 for The Mask , 1997 for Dragonheart and 2000 for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace . He currently works as a freelance VFX supervisor in Los Angeles and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Filmography (special effects)

• 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Close Encounters of the Third Child)
• 1979: Buck Rogers (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
• 1979: Star Trek: The Movie (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
• 1982: The Blade Runner (Blade Runner)
• 1982: One from the Heart (One from the Heart)
• 1983: V - The extraterrestrial visitors arrive
• 1983: Deal of the Century
• 1984: Buckaroo Banzai - The 8th Dimension (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
• 1985: Space
• 1986: In Search of the Golden Child (The Golden Child)
• 1987: The Witches of Eastwick (The Witches of Eastwick)
• 1988: Willow
• 1989: Tummy Trouble
• 1990: The Hunt for Red October (The Hunt for Red October)
• 1993: Space Rangers (1 episode)
• 1994 The Mask (The Mask)
• 1994: Radioland Murders - Madness on the air (Radioland Murders)
• 1996: Dragonheart
• 1997: Starship Troopers
• 1997: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
• 1999: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace)
• 2000: Micronauts
• 2002: The Time Machine
• 2004: Van Helsing
• 2006: Little Finger
• 2007: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (4: Rise of the Silver Surfer)
• 2010: Hereafter - Life After (Hereafter)
• 2011: Transformers 3 (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
• 2012: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Web links

• Scott Squires in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography of Scott Squires. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 11, 2012 ; accessed on February 10, 2013 . 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Scott Squires Bio. Squires Studios. Retrieved February 10, 2013 .