Awards & Winners

Hoyt Yeatman

Date of Birth 23-January-1955
Place of Birth San Francisco
(California, United States of America, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Peninsula, Area code 415)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Hoyt Horatio Yeatman Jr., Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr., Hoyt Yeatman Jr.
Profession Visual Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Artist
Hoyt Yeatman is an American visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked with Jerry Bruckheimer on a number of films, including Armageddon, Con Air, and The Rock. He made his directorial debut with the film G-Force. Yeatman is an alumnus of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. In 1979 Yeatman, Scott Squires, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded Dream Quest Images, a groundbreaking visual effects house, winning the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1989 for the motion control and underwater effects in The Abyss. In 1996 Dream Quest was purchased by The Walt Disney Company, which became Disney's "The Secret Lab" in 1999. The Secret Lab closed its doors in 2001.

Awards by Hoyt Yeatman

Check all the awards nominated and won by Hoyt Yeatman.

1999


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(For the identification and diagnosis leading to the elimination of the red fringe artifact in traveling matte composite photography. The elimination of the red fringe artifact in traveling matte composite photography obviates expensive additional computerized image processing thus reducing the time involved in producing a seamless and convincing composite shot. [Laboratory])

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Mighty Joe Young

1989


Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : The Abyss

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Abyss

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects The Fly