Adam Valdez

Adam Valdez is visual effects supervisor. Best known for his works on Oscar winning films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) as an animation head, though did not get the nomination. Vadez worked as lead visual supervisor in acclaimed films such as 10,000 BC (2008), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), John Carter (2012), World War Z (2013), Maleficent (2014), The Jungle Book (2016) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at 89th Academy Awards.[1][2] In 2020, he received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects for The Lion King (2019).

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
2019	The Lion King	(visual effects supervisor: MPC)
2016	The Jungle Book	(visual effects supervisor: MPC)
2014	Maleficent	(vfx supervisor: MPC)
2013	World War Z	(visual effects supervisor: MPC)
2012	John Carter	(visual effects supervisor: MPC)
2010	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	(visual effects supervisor: MPC)
2010	The Wolfman	(visual effects supervisor: MPC)
2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	(animation supervisor)
2008	10,000 BC	(animation supervisor: MPC)
2007	1408	(CG artist: MPC)
2004	AVP: Alien Vs. Predator	(visual effects supervisor: MPC)
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	(animation department head: Weta Digital)
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	(animation supervisor: Weta Digital)
1999	Forces of Nature	(animation supervisor)
1997	Starship Troopers	(lead character animator: Tippett Studio)
1996	Dragonheart	(animator/animatics)
1996	Tremors 2: Aftershocks (Video)	(technical advisor: Tippett Studio)
1995	Three Wishes	(effects animator)
1993	Jurassic Park	(computer systems: Tippett Studio)
1993	RoboCop 3	(computer graphics: Tippett Studio - as Adam J. Valdez)
1990	RoboCop 2	(assistant mold maker: robot monster crew - as Adam J. Valdez)

References

"Oscar Nominations 2017: The Complete List - 89th Academy Awards". Oscars.com. January 24, 2017. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
"Oscar Nominations 2017: See the Full List". Vanity Fair. January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2017.

External links

Adam Valdez at IMDb

Awards for Adam Valdez

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
1963-1980	Emil Kosa Jr. (1963) Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, and Hamilton Luske (1964) John Stears (1965) Art Cruickshank (1966) L. B. Abbott (1967) Stanley Kubrick (1968) Robbie Robertson (1969) L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1970) Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee (1971) L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1972) no award given (1973) Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, and Albert Whitlock (1974) Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1975) Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, and Frank Van der Veer (1976) John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, and Robert Blalack (1977) Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, and Zoran Perisic (1978) H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, and Dennis Ayling (1979) Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (1980)
1981-2000	Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, and Joe Johnston (1981) Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, and Kenneth F. Smith (1982) Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett (1983) Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, and George Gibbs (1984) Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar, and David Berry (1985) Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, and Suzanne Benson (1986) Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup, and Kenneth F. Smith (1987) Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, and George Gibbs (1988) John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, and Dennis Skotak (1989) Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, and Alex Funke (1990) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., and Robert Skotak (1991) Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe, and Tom Woodruff Jr. (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri (1993) Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Allen Hall (1994) Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan, and John Cox (1995) Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney, and Joe Viskocil (1996) Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer (1997) Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson, and Kevin Mack (1998) John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum (1999) John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, and Rob Harvey (2000)
2001-present	Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor, Mark Stetson (2001) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2002) Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke (2003) John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and John Frazier (2004) Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor (2005) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall (2006) Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Wood (2007) Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, and Craig Barron (2008) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (2009) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb (2010) Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning (2011) Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott (2012) Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould (2013) Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Fisher (2014) Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst (2015) Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon (2016) John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover (2017) Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm (2018) Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler, and Dominic Tuohy (2019)

BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects

1982–2000

Richard Edlund (1982)
Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Kit West (1983)
Dennis Muren, George Gibbs, Michael J. McAlister and Lorne Peterson (1984)
George Gibbs and Richard Conway (1985)
Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson and Stan Winston (1986)
Michael Lantieri, Michael Owens, Ed Jones and Bruce Walters (1987)
George Gibbs, Richard Williams, Ken Ralston and Ed Jones (1988)
Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley (1989)
The special visual effects team of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1990)
Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak (1991)
Michael Lantieri, Ken Ralston, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Doug Chiang and Douglas Smythe (1992)
Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri (1993)
Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, Doug Chiang and Allen Hall (1994)
Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney and Leslie Ekker (1995)
Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Henry LaBounta and Habib Zargarpour (1996)
Mark Stetson, Karen Goulekas, Nick Allder, Neil Corbould and Nick Dudman (1997)
Stefen Fangmeier, Roger Guyett and Neil Corbould (1998)
John Gaeta, Steve Courtley, Janek Sirrs and Jon Thum (1999)
Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti, Habib Zargarpour and Tim Alexander (2000)

2001–present

Jim Rygiel, Richard Taylor, Alex Funke, Randall William Cook and Mark Stetson (2001)
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
Joe Letteri, Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2003)
Karen Goulekas, Neil Corbould, Greg Strause and Remo Balcells (2004)
Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hul and Richard Taylor (2005)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall (2006)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood (2007)
Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness and Edson Williams (2008)
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb (2010)
Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler and David Vickery (2011)
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron and Erik-Jan de Boer (2012)
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould and Nikki Penny (2013)
Paul Franklin, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Ian Hunter (2014)
Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh and Neal Scanlan (2015)
Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez (2016)
Richard R. Hoover, Paul Lambert, Gerd Nefzer and John Nelson (2017)
Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack and Dan Sudick (2018)
Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron and Dominic Tuohy (2019)

Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects

Volker Engel and Douglas Smith (1996)
Ken Ralston (1997)
Ellen Somers (1998)
Jerome Chen, John Dykstra, Henry F. Anderson III and Eric Allard (1999)
John Nelson (2000)
Chris Godfrey (2001)
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness, Robert Stromberg and Dan Sudick (2003)
Andy Brown and Kirsty Millar / Robert Legato, Peter G. Travers, Matthew Gratzner and R. Bruce Steinheimer (2004)
John Knoll and Hal Hickel (2005)
John Knoll and Hal Hickel (2006)
Chris Watts, Grant Freckelton, Derek Wentworth and Daniel Leduc (2007)
Chris Godfrey, James E. Price and Diana Giorgiutti (2008)
Volker Engel, Marc Weigert and Mike Vézina (2009)
Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips (2010)
Robert Legato, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning and Adam Watkins (2011)
Jim Gibbs, Kevin Baillie, Michael Lantieri and Ryan Tudhope (2012)
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (2013)
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon and Matt Kutcher (2014)
Jim Gibbs, Kevin Baillie, Viktor Muller and Sébastien Moreau (2015)
Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez (2016)
John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover and Gerd Nefzer (2017)
Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack and Dan Sudick (2018)
Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon (2019)

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