Robert Stromberg

Robert Stromberg is an Emmy Award and Academy Award winning visual effects artist specialized in matte paintings who worked for Bill Taylor and Syd Dutton as part of their company Illusion Arts Inc on Star Trek First Contact the Star Trek The Next Generation third and fifth season episodes The Best of Both Worlds and A Matter Of Time the Star Trek Deep Space Nine second season episode Tribunal and the Star Trek Voyager first season episode Caretaker For Tribunal Stromberg created the matte painting of Cardassia Prime and for Caretaker created the matte paintings for the Ocampa underground city During his time on Star Trek Stromberg earned one Emmy Award nomination and two wins He made his directorial debut with the 2014 Disney film Maleficent a reimagining of the iconic Disney villain Stromberg earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement Special Visual Effects in 1995 for his work on the television drama Fatherland shared with Richard Patterson and David S Williams Jr In 2008 he won another Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries Movie or a Special for the John Adams episode Join Or Die for which he also won two Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial and for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries Movie or Special He was previously nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award in 2006 for his work on the drama Memoirs of a Geisha His work on Master and Commander The Far Side of the World in 2004 earned him three more nominations and one win an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture shared with Brooke Breton and the win of a Golden Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects The following years he worked as matte artist digital matte artist on projects such as Tremors 1990 Cape Fear 1991 A Few Good Men 1992 Addams Family Values 1993 Naked Gun 33 13 The Final Insult 1994 From Dusk till Dawn 1996 The Birdcage 1996 Dragonheart 1996 Daylight 1996 Patch Adams 1998 Battlefield Earth 2000 Cast Away 2000 15 Minutes 2001 Men in Black II 2002 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Bad Boys II 2003 and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 In 2010 Stromberg and Rick Carter received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Production Design for their work on Avatar Star Trek production designer Scott Chambliss is also nominated in this category Stromberg Rick Carter and Kim Sinclair won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction for their work on Avatar at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards In 2011 Stromberg and Karen OHara received the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction for their work on Alice in Wonderland at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards Also in 2011 he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the crime series Boardwalk Empire