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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.*