Awards & Winners

Joe Letteri

Date of Birth 1957
Place of Birth Aliquippa
(Beaver County, Pennsylvania)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Joseph Letteri
Profession Visual Effects Artist
Joe Letteri, ONZM is a senior visual effects artist, winner of four Academy awards, four BAFTA awards and four VES awards. He is the current Director of the Academy Award-winning Weta Digital, having joined the company in 2001. He has been the visual effects supervisor of several movies, his latest work being Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He attended Center High School in 1975 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He gave the keynote address at UC Berkeley's December Convocation on December 19, 2010.

Awards by Joe Letteri

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joe Letteri.

2014


PGA Vanguard Award

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects Rise of the Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox

2010


BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects
Honored for : Avatar
VES Award for Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Honored for : Avatar

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Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Avatar

2009


Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : Avatar

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Avatar

2006


BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects
Honored for : King Kong

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects King Kong

2005


Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : King Kong

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects King Kong

2004


BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects
Honored for : The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects I, Robot

2003


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(For their groundbreaking implementations of practical methods for rendering skin and other translucent materials using subsurface scattering techniques. These groundbreaking techniques were used to create realistic-looking skin on digitally created characters.)
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects
Honored for : The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2002


Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers