John C. Dykstra

John Charles Dykstra
John Dykstra
June 3, 1947
Long Beach, California
77 years and 160 days
6’ 4” (1.93 m)
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
Winner markerVisual Effects. Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack.
Winner markerScientific or Technical Award (Class II). To John C. Dykstra for the development of a facility uniquely oriented toward visual effects photography, and to Alvah J. Miller and Jerry Jeffress for the engineering of the Electronic Motion Control System used in concert for multiple exposure visual effects motion picture photography.
Visual Effects. Star Trek—The Motion Picture, Century Associates Production; Paramount. Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, Dave Stewart and Grant McCune.
Visual Effects. Stuart Little, Douglas Wick and Franklin/Waterman and Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. (Germany, USA) John Dykstra, Jerome Chen, Henry F. Anderson III and Eric Allard.
Visual Effects. Spider-Man, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier.
Winner markerVisual Effects. Spider-Man 2, Columbia Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier.

6 Nominations