Joe Letteri
Joseph Bruce Letteri is a senior visual effects artist. He is the winner of five 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. 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 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.
Filmography
- Peter Pan & Wendy
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- The Batman
- Eternals
- The Suicide Squad
- Gemini Man
- Alita: Battle Angel
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- The BFG
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- Man of Steel
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
- Avatar
- The Lovely Bones
- The Water Horse
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- King Kong
- I, Robot
- Van Helsing
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Magnolia
- Jack Frost
- Star Wars
- Daylight
- Mission: Impossible
- Casper
- The Flintstones
- The Meteor Man
- Jurassic Park
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- ''The Abyss''
Awards and nominations
Academy Award
- 2026 Oscar – nomination for Best Visual Effects – Avatar: Fire and Ash
- 2023 Oscar – winner for Best Visual Effects – Avatar: The Way of Water
- 2018 Oscar – nomination for Best Visual Effects – War for the Planet of the Apes
- 2015 Oscar – nomination for Best Visual Effects – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- 2014 Oscar – nomination for Best Visual Effects – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- 2013 Oscar – nomination for Best Visual Effects – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- 2012 Oscar – nomination for Best Visual Effects – Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- 2010 Oscar – winner for Best Visual Effects – Avatar
- 2006 Oscar – winner for Best Visual Effects – King Kong
- 2005 Oscar – nomination for Best Visual Effects – I, Robot
- 2004 Oscar – winner for Best Visual Effects – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2003 Oscar – winner for Best Visual Effects – ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''
BAFTA
- 2011 BAFTA Film Award – nomination for best Special Visual Effects – Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
- 2010 BAFTA Film Award – winner for best Special Visual Effects – Avatar
- 2006 BAFTA Film Award – winner for best Achievement in Special Visual Effects – King Kong
- 2004 BAFTA Film Award – winner for best Achievement in Special Visual Effects – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2003 BAFTA Film Award – winner for best Achievement in Special Visual Effects – ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''