Michael Lantieri
Michael " Mike" Lantieri ( born August 13, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is an American VFX Supervisor, the Jurassic Park for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects was awarded in 1994.
Life
He grew up in Los Angeles and went along with Ron Howard to school. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1974 he worked for the Universal Studios TV series such as The Six Million Dollar Man and Battlestar Galactica. He also helped from 1974-1981 during the construction of Disneyland 's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. In 1982 he was first responsible for the special effects in the dance movie Flashdance.
After 10 years he left the Universal Studios and worked in the aftermath of films such as Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Back to the Future II, for which he 1990 visual for an Oscar in the category of Best effects was nominated. He has developed in the following years some of the most striking and sophisticated mechanical special effects in modern movies. These included the flying sequences in Hook and the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, for which he along with Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, and Phil Tippett received in the category Best Visual Effects Academy Award in 1994. He was also for the movies Hook, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and AI - Artificial intelligence also nominated for an Oscar.
In 1999 gaber with Komodo - The Living Terror, an animal horror movie, his directorial debut. So far, followed by no further work as a director.
He is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.