Robert Swarthe

Robert Swarthe
Born	(1942-09-06) September 6, 1942 (age 82)
Occupation	Special effects artist
Years active	1968-1983

Robert Swarthe (born September 6, 1942) is a special effects artist who started out directing short films. He has two Academy Award nominations.

Academy Award nominations

48th Academy Awards – Nominated in the category of Best Animated short, Kick Me, lost to Great.^[1]^[2]
52nd Academy Awards – Nominated in the category of Best Visual Effects, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nomination shared with John Dykstra, Grant McCune, David K. Stewart, Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich. Lost to Alien.^[3]

Preservation

The Academy Film Archive preserved Kick Me and The Unicycle Race by Swarthe.^[4]

Filmography

As director

Uncle Walt (1964)^[5]^[6]
The Unicycle Race (1966)
K-9000: A Space Oddity (1968)^[7] with Robert Mitchell ^[8]
Kick Me (1975)

As special effects artist

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
One from the Heart (1982)
The Outsiders (1983)

See also

References

^ "The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1975 -". cartoonresearch.com.
^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
^ Mouseplanet - Disney Cartoons That Aren't Disney by Wade Simpson
^ Lost Short Film “Uncle Walt” Found And Sold On eBay.|Pirates & Princesses
^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1968 -". cartoonresearch.com.
^ Robert Mitchell on IMDB

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