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Robert Swarthe

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Years active
  
1968-1983


Name
  
Robert Swarthe

Role
  
Special Effects Artist

Born
  
September 6, 1942 (age 81) (
1942-09-06
)

Movies
  
Kick Me, K-9000: A Space Oddity

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)

Similar People
  
Douglas Trumbull, Grant McCune, John Dykstra, Robert Wise, Harold Livingston

Occupation
  
Special effects artist

Robert Swarthe (born September 6, 1942) is a special effects artist who started out directing short films. He has 2 Academy Award nominations.

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Oscar Nominations

  • 48th Academy Awards-Nominated in the category of Best Animated short, Kick Me, lost to Great.
  • 52nd Academy Awards-Nominated in the category of Best Visual Effects, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nomination shared with John Dykstra, Grant McCune, David K. Stewart, Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich. Lost to Alien.

    • Preservation

    The Academy Film Archive preserved "Kick Me" and "The Unicycle Race" by Swarthe.

    As a director

  • K-9000: A Space Oddity (1968)
  • Kick Me (1975)

    • As a Special Effects Artist

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
  • One from the Heart (1982)
  • The Outsiders (1983)

    • In addition he appeared in a making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind video in 2001.

    References

    Robert Swarthe Wikipedia
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