Joe Letteri

American visual effects artist · United States · On the map · Artists · Born 1957 · age 69

Joseph Bruce Letteri is a senior visual effects artist. He is the winner of six Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and four VES awards. As of 2018, he is the senior visual effects supervisor of the Academy Award-winning Wētā FX, having joined the company in 2001.

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2023Academy Award for Best Visual EffectsAward2010Academy Award for Best Visual EffectsAwardWellingtonian of the Year (category award)Award2006Academy Award for Best Visual EffectsAward2004Academy Award for Best Visual EffectsAward2003Academy Award for Best Visual EffectsAward1957Born

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Letteri after his investiture as an honorary ONZM in 2012.

Awards

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects2023

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects2010

Wellingtonian of the Year (category award)2010

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects2006

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects2004

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects2003

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit

About this person

He has received several awards and nominations as visual effects supervisor, the latest being Avatar: The Way of Water, and previously for War for the Planet of the Apes. He attended Center High School (Pennsylvania) in 1975 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He gave the keynote address at UC Berkeley's December Convocation on 19 December 2010.

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