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Roger Guyett

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Biography

Roger Guyett is an English visual effects supervisor and second unit director. Guyett and his fellow visual effects artists were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He started his career in London, working in Computer Animation on commercials, pop videos, and TV idents in the mid-1980s. Following a move to the United States in 1993, he began working on various film projects. He initially worked at Pacific Data Images (PDI - the largest Computer Graphics company at that time, known for the Michael Jackson video 'Black or White') before moving in 1995 to Industrial Light & Magic – one of the longest-standing and most successful visual effects companies in the world. During his 27-year tenure at ILM, he has worked on over 30 films. Guyett has been nominated for six Academy Awards: he was also nominated for Ready Player One, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Additionally, he has won two British Academy Film Awards for Best Special Visual Effects and been nominated a further six times. Guyett returned to supervise the visual effects for the final/episodic film of the Skywalker Saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which was released on 20 December 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Guyett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Ready Player One

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Visual Effects Supervisor

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Trek

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Visual Effects Supervisor

Mission: Impossible III

Visual Effects Supervisor

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Game On: Cinematic Journeys Through Digital Worlds

From arcade nostalgia to virtual reality epics, these films explore the thrill and terror of living inside the game.

8 films

It was Miss Scarlet, in the cinema...

Celebrating Lesley Ann Warren's 80th birthday with a journey through board game adaptations, from the witty whodunit of Clue to the explosive naval warfare of B...

8 films

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