Nick Allder

Nick Allder is an English special effects supervisor and coordinator. He started his career as an assistant camera operator and moved, after eight years, into special effects. He has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), and a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for the science-fiction film The Fifth Element (1997). Allder has worked on the set of high-grossing films such as the epic space opera The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and the historical drama film Braveheart (1995).

Nick Allder
Born	Nicholas John Allder (1943-02-10) February 10, 1943 Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Film special effects artist
Years active	1968–present
Spouse(s)	Susan Penning (m. 1980⁠–⁠1999)

Career

Allder started his professional career as an assistant camera operator, making advertisements. After eight years, he moved on to special effects.[1]

Awards

In addition to winning an Academy Award for Alien and a BAFTA Award for The Fifth Element, Allder was nominated for an additional Saturn Award for Best Special Effects for Alien and a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for the fantasy film Legend (1985) [2]

Filmography

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Year	Film	Genre
1968	A Twist of Sand	Adventure
1969	Battle of Britain	Action, Drama
1969	Moon Zero Two	Science fiction
1973	Yellow Dog	Action, Drama
1978	The Medusa Touch	Supernatural thriller
1975 – 78	Space: 1999	Science-fiction TV series
1979	Alien	Science-fiction horror
1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Epic space opera
1980	The Sea Wolves	War
1981	Nighthawks	Thriller
1982	Conan the Barbarian	Fantasy, Thriller
1982	The Final Option	Drama
1982	The Sender	Horror, Thriller
1982	Cosmic Princess	Science Fiction
1983	The Return of the Soldier	Drama
1983	The Keep	Horror, Thriller
1984	Top Secret!	Parody, Action
1985	Legend	Fantasy
1985	The Jewel of the Nile	Action, Romance
1986	Solarbabies	Drama, Science Fiction
1987	The Princess Bride	Fantasy, Romance
1988	The Rescue	Drama, Action
1989	Leviathan	Mystery, Science Fiction
1990	A Chinese Ghost Story II	Drama, Fantasy
1991	Shuttlecock	Thriller
1992	City of Joy	Drama
1994	The Professional	Drama, Mystery
1994	MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday	Action, Adventure
1995	Braveheart	Historical drama
1996	Muppet Treasure Island	Comedy, Music
1997	The Fifth Element	Science-fiction
1998	Lost in Space	Action, Adventure
1999	Cleopatra
1999	The Criminal
2000	Highlander: Endgame
2001	The Lost Empire	TV mini-series
2001	Just Visiting
2001	Behind Enemy Lines
2002	Blade II
2003	Shanghai Knights
2003	Underworld
2004	Hellboy
2005	The Cave
2005	An American Haunting
2007	Blood and Chocolate
2007	The Company	TV mini-series
2007	The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2011	Weapon
2012	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance	3D superhero

References

"Space: 1999 Year One Brochure: Special Effects". space1999.net. Archived from the original on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
Awards for Nick Allder at IMDb

External links

Nick Allder at IMDb

Awards for Nick Allder

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)

Space: 1999

Episodes

Year One

Year Two