Hoyt Yeatman Biography ((?)-)
Career: Special effects expert. Dream Quest Images, cofounder, executive vice- president, and senior visual effects specialist. Also works on commercial projects. Awards, Honors: Shared British Academy Award nomination, best special effects, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1986, for The Fly; shared Academy Award, best visual effects, 1989, for The Abyss; shared Academy Award nomination, best visual effects, 1998, forMighty Joe Young. Addresses: Office: Dream Quest Images, 2635 Park Center Dr., Simi Valley, CA 93065-6209.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Special effects designer
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Work
- Visual Effects Supervisor, Unless Otherwise Noted
- Camera operator, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Paramount, 1979
- Motion control photographer, One from the Heart, Columbia, 1982
- Motion control supervisor, Blue Thunder, Columbia, 1983
- Motion control supervisor, Deal of the Century, 1983
- Motion control supervisor, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension (also known as Buckaroo Banzai), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1984
- Photographic effects supervisor, D.A.R.Y.L., Paramount, 1985
- Creator of special visual effects, Short Circuit, 1986
- (With others) The Fly, 1986
- Special visual effects supervisor, A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III:Dream Warriors, New Line Cinema, 1987
- House II: The Second Story, 1987
- Senior visual effects supervisor, "Smooth Criminal," Moonwalker (also known as Michael Jackson: Moonwalker), 1988
- The Blob, TriStar, 1988
- (With others) The Abyss, 1989
- Grand Canyon, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991
- Special visual effects supervisor, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (also known as A Nightmare on Elm Street 6), 1991
- Final Analysis, Warner Bros., 1992
- Director, Asteroid Adventure, 1994
- Crimson Tide, 1995
- The Rock, 1996
- Paris destruction sequence only, Armageddon, 1998
- (With others) Mighty Joe Young (also known as Mighty Joe),1998
- Television Work
- Worked on television programs, including Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, and Laugh-In specials.*