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)