Scott Squires

Scott Squires (born 1956) is a visual effects supervisor and director. His first film project was Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect. In 1979 Squires, Hoyt Yeatman, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded Dream Quest Images, a visual effects house, which was later purchased by Disney. Squires was president of Dream Quest and left in 1985 to work for Industrial Light and Magic. Squires worked as visual effects supervisor and commercial director at ILM for 20 years and is now a freelance director and visual effects supervisor.

While at ILM, Squires received an Academy Technical Award for Input Scanning and received Academy Award nominations for The Mask, Dragonheart, and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

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Saturn Award for Best Special Effects

Marcel Vercoutere (1977)
Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt (1973)
Douglas Knapp, Bill Taylor, John Carpenter, and Dan O'Bannon (1974/75)
L. B. Abbott (1976)
John Dykstra and John Stears (1977)
Colin Chilvers (1978)
Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, and Richard Yuricich (1979)
Brian Johnson and Richard Edlund (1980)
Richard Edlund (1981)
Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren (1982)
Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, and Ken Ralston (1983)
Chris Walas (1984)
Kevin Pike (1985)
Stan Winston, Robert Skotak and Dennis Skotak (1986)
Peter Kuran, Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, and Rocco Gioffre (1987)
George Gibbs, Ken Ralston, and Richard Williams (1988)
Ken Ralston (1989/90)
Stan Winston (1991)
Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992)
Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993)
John Bruno (1994)
Stan Parks (1995)
Volker Engel, Clay Pinney, Douglas Smith, and Joe Viskocil (1996)
Phil Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., John Richardson (1997)
Volker Engel, Patrick Tatopoulos, Karen E. Goulekas, and Clay Pinney (1998)
Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren, and Scott Squires (1999)
Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, and Stan Parks (2000)
Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri (2001)
Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll, and Ben Snow (2002)
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003)
John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004)
Joe Letteri, Richard Taylor, Christian Rivers, and Brian Van't Hul (2005)
John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl, and John Frazier (2007)
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, and Paul J. Franklin (2008)
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Paul J. Franklin, and Peter Bebb (2010)
Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett (2011)
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick (2012)
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013)
Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014)
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould (2015)
John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould (2016)
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick (2017)

Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.

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