Awards & Winners

Hal Hickel

Also know as Hal T. Hickel, Hal Hickle
Profession Animator
Hal T. Hickel is a visual effects animator for Industrial Light & Magic. At the age of 12, Hickel wrote a letter to Lucasfilm outlining his ideas for a sequel to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and received a polite rejection letter from producer Gary Kurtz. The letter now hangs on the wall of Hickel's office at ILM. Twenty years later, Hickel found himself working on Star Wars after all, as a lead animator on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. A native from Bailey, Colorado, he joined the Film Graphics Program at CalArts in 1982. Worked at An-FX from 1982 until 1988 and then joined Will Vinton Studios working in stop motion and motion control. Hickel began his animation career at Pixar in 1994, where he worked on Toy Story, the THX promos, as well as some of Pixar's short films. Hearing that a new Star Wars trilogy was in pre-production, Hickel applied for a transfer to ILM on the chance that he may get to work on the prequels. He was first assigned as an animator on The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but was eventually assigned to work on The Phantom Menace and later its sequel Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, where he was responsible for the unique movement of the Droideka destroyer droids.

Awards by Hal Hickel

Check all the awards nominated and won by Hal Hickel.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Pacific Rim

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Iron Man

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007


BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects
Honored for : Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2006


Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl