Roger Guyett

Roger Guyett is an English visual effects supervisor and second unit director Guyett and his fellow visual effects artists were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2015 film Star Wars The Force Awakens He started his career in London working in Computer Animation on commercials pop videos and TV idents in the mid1980s Following a move to the United States in 1993 he began working on various film projects He initially worked at Pacific Data Images PDI the largest Computer Graphics company at that time known for the Michael Jackson video Black or White before moving in 1995 to Industrial Light Magic  one of the longeststanding and most successful visual effects companies in the world During his 27year tenure at ILM he has worked on over 30 films Guyett has been nominated for six Academy Awards he was also nominated for Ready Player One Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Additionally he has won two British Academy Film Awards for Best Special Visual Effects and been nominated a further six times Guyett returned to supervise the visual effects for the finalepisodic film of the Skywalker Saga Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker which was released on 20 December 2019 Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Guyett licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia