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John Dykstra in 2001
John Charles Dyksta, A.S.C. (born 3 June 1947; age 76) is a special and visual effects artist who served as Special Photographic Effects Supervisor on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, garnering an Academy Award nomination and a Saturn Award win for "Best Special Effects." However, he first acquired fame for his photographic effects work on the original Star Wars, for which he won an Academy Award in 1978. He also earned a special Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy that same year for his development of the first computer-controlled camera system, known as "Dykstraflex." After leaving ILM in 1978, he founded the company Apogee, Inc.
Dykstra also worked on the effects for Stuart Little (1999) and two Spider-Man films (2002 and 2004, both starring Kirsten Dunst and the second featuring Donna Murphy and Daniel Dae Kim), earning Academy Award nominations for all three. He also won an Emmy Award for his work on the original Battlestar Galactica series. His other credits include Caddyshack (1980, with Ted Knight), Lifeforce (1985, with Patrick Stewart), My Stepmother is an Alien (1988, with Tony Jay, Suzie Plakson, Earl Boen and cinematography by Richard H. Kline), Batman Forever (1995, with Rene Auberjonois and Ed Begley, Jr.), and Batman & Robin (1997, with John Glover).
External links
- John Dykstra at Wikipedia
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- John Dykstra at Battlestar Wiki
- John Dykstra Biography