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Top Grossing Visual Effects Supervisor at the Worldwide Box OfficeBETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Visual Effects Supervisors based on the worldwide box office of the movies they worked on.
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1
Roger Guyett
| Best known as a Visual Effects Supervisor based on credits in that role in 23 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens ($2,056,046,835 in 2015), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ($1,069,951,814 in 2019), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($1,066,179,725 in 2006), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($962,575,067 in 2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($960,996,492 in 2007), Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith ($902,891,983 in 2005), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ($784,234,714 in 2004), Ready Player One ($583,490,172 in 2018), Twister ($499,230,797 in 1996), Saving Private Ryan ($485,035,085 in 1998) |
2
Kelly Port
| Best known as a Visual Effects Supervisor based on credits in that role in 16 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Avengers: Endgame ($2,717,503,922 in 2019), Avengers: Infinity War ($2,048,158,241 in 2018), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1,921,206,586 in 2021), Beauty and the Beast ($1,259,761,686 in 2017), Maleficent ($758,536,735 in 2014), Thor ($449,326,618 in 2011), Star Trek ($386,839,614 in 2009), Gran Torino ($274,543,085 in 2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ($223,050,874 in 2010), The A-Team ($177,241,171 in 2010) |
3
Joe Letteri
| Best known as a Visual Effects Supervisor based on credits in that role in 14 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Avatar ($2,923,706,026 in 2009), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ($1,014,938,545 in 2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ($959,358,436 in 2013), The Jungle Book ($950,697,998 in 2016), The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies ($940,323,039 in 2014), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ($710,644,566 in 2014), King Kong ($556,906,378 in 2005), War for the Planet of the Apes ($489,592,267 in 2017), Rise of the Planet of the Apes ($470,986,200 in 2011), The Adventures of Tintin ($373,993,951 in 2011) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roger Guyett | $11,406,189,701 | 23 | $495,921,291 |
| 2 | Kelly Port | $10,465,069,714 | 16 | $654,066,857 |
| 3 | Joe Letteri | $10,037,967,482 | 14 | $716,997,677 |
| 4 | John Knoll | $9,526,334,677 | 12 | $793,861,223 |
| 5 | Robert Legato | $7,855,384,184 | 11 | $714,125,835 |
| 6 | Dan Lemmon | $7,276,040,241 | 7 | $1,039,434,320 |
| 7 | Janek Sirrs | $6,990,551,410 | 8 | $873,818,926 |
| 8 | Dan DeLeeuw | $6,841,362,536 | 6 | $1,140,227,089 |
| 9 | Sheena Duggal | $6,327,350,383 | 20 | $316,367,519 |
| 10 | Kelvin McIlwain | $6,266,459,717 | 11 | $569,678,156 |
| 11 | Eric Saindon | $5,976,095,021 | 5 | $1,195,219,004 |
| 12 | Guy Williams | $5,872,232,959 | 4 | $1,468,058,240 |
| 13 | Tim Burke | $5,749,873,377 | 7 | $821,410,482 |
| 14 | Scott Edelstein | $5,703,344,791 | 5 | $1,140,668,958 |
| 15 | Christopher Townsend | $5,284,572,597 | 7 | $754,938,942 |
| 16 | Jerome Chen | $4,853,691,876 | 12 | $404,474,323 |
| 17 | Charles Gibson | $4,610,888,604 | 9 | $512,320,956 |
| 18 | Nick Davis | $4,600,079,727 | 9 | $511,119,970 |
| 19 | John Bruno | $4,525,946,463 | 6 | $754,324,411 |
| 20 | Scott Farrar | $4,524,043,783 | 10 | $452,404,378 |
| 21 | Christopher Waegner | $4,293,918,950 | 6 | $715,653,158 |
| 22 | Stephen Rosenbaum | $4,168,309,390 | 6 | $694,718,232 |
| 23 | Dennis Muren | $4,132,336,608 | 11 | $375,666,964 |
| 24 | Jason Smith | $4,125,416,308 | 6 | $687,569,385 |
| 25 | Ken Ralston | $4,094,376,130 | 10 | $409,437,613 |
| 26 | Adam Valdez | $4,093,307,731 | 4 | $1,023,326,933 |
| 27 | Michael J. Wassel | $4,052,939,043 | 7 | $578,991,292 |
| 28 | Geoffrey Baumann | $3,968,434,028 | 4 | $992,108,507 |
| 29 | Jeff White | $3,673,714,654 | 4 | $918,428,664 |
| 30 | Pablo Helman | $3,626,460,352 | 9 | $402,940,039 |
| 31 | Ben Snow | $3,561,425,244 | 6 | $593,570,874 |
| 32 | Paul Franklin | $3,406,535,908 | 4 | $851,633,977 |
| 33 | Jim Rygiel | $3,281,315,348 | 7 | $468,759,335 |
| 34 | Dan Sudick | $3,262,789,197 | 2 | $1,631,394,599 |
| 35 | Bill Westenhofer | $3,176,967,986 | 8 | $397,120,998 |
| 36 | Patrick Tubach | $3,034,538,817 | 4 | $758,634,704 |
| 37 | Russell Earl | $3,020,532,875 | 3 | $1,006,844,292 |
| 38 | Jake Morrison | $2,985,341,627 | 5 | $597,068,325 |
| 39 | David Vickery | $2,965,972,690 | 3 | $988,657,563 |
| 40 | Steven Quale | $2,923,706,026 | 1 | $2,923,706,026 |
| 41 | John 'DJ' DesJardin | $2,902,130,569 | 8 | $362,766,321 |
| 42 | Eric Brevig | $2,871,525,106 | 7 | $410,217,872 |
| 43 | Steve Begg | $2,864,087,072 | 6 | $477,347,845 |
| 44 | Dan Glass | $2,788,468,680 | 11 | $253,497,153 |
| 45 | Patrick Ledda | $2,779,622,077 | 7 | $397,088,868 |
| 46 | Volker Engel | $2,540,688,437 | 5 | $508,137,687 |
| 47 | Angus Bickerton | $2,537,488,924 | 8 | $317,186,116 |
| 48 | Stephane Ceretti | $2,493,670,997 | 5 | $498,734,199 |
| 49 | Richard Stammers | $2,479,545,460 | 5 | $495,909,092 |
| 50 | John Nelson | $2,467,589,884 | 10 | $246,758,988 |
| 51 | Jim Mitchell | $2,439,920,090 | 6 | $406,653,348 |
| 52 | Erik Nash | $2,434,322,258 | 5 | $486,864,452 |
| 53 | Ken Bielenberg | $2,363,058,313 | 4 | $590,764,578 |
| 54 | Christian Manz | $2,348,702,723 | 6 | $391,450,454 |
| 55 | Steve Goldberg | $2,332,295,276 | 4 | $583,073,819 |
| 56 | Peter Chiang | $2,211,983,395 | 10 | $221,198,340 |
| 57 | Scott Squires | $2,188,458,994 | 5 | $437,691,799 |
| 58 | Tim Alexander | $2,176,790,356 | 3 | $725,596,785 |
| 59 | Carey Villegas | $2,167,989,402 | 5 | $433,597,880 |
| 60 | Nicholas Brooks | $2,131,837,679 | 5 | $426,367,536 |
| 61 | Stefen Fangmeier | $2,116,872,095 | 8 | $264,609,012 |
| 62 | Scott Stokdyk | $2,089,665,782 | 5 | $417,933,156 |
| 63 | Paul Kavanagh | $2,056,046,835 | 1 | $2,056,046,835 |
| 64 | Michael Brazelton | $1,945,793,456 | 4 | $486,448,364 |
| 65 | Bill George | $1,868,149,950 | 5 | $373,629,990 |
| 66 | Chris Corbould | $1,859,829,724 | 3 | $619,943,241 |
| 67 | Philippe Gluckman | $1,857,350,709 | 3 | $619,116,903 |
| 68 | Scott Kersavage | $1,745,844,683 | 3 | $581,948,228 |
| 69 | Charley Henley | $1,731,570,598 | 3 | $577,190,199 |
| 70 | Sudeep Rangaswamy | $1,698,831,782 | 1 | $1,698,831,782 |
| 71 | Paul Lambert | $1,694,248,463 | 6 | $282,374,744 |
| 72 | Jon Farhat | $1,687,130,360 | 7 | $241,018,623 |
| 73 | Andrew R. Jones | $1,661,454,403 | 1 | $1,661,454,403 |
| 74 | Elliot Newman | $1,661,454,403 | 1 | $1,661,454,403 |
| 75 | Jonathan Fawkner | $1,639,970,358 | 2 | $819,985,179 |
| 76 | Andrew Jackson | $1,635,743,419 | 5 | $327,148,684 |
| 77 | John Gaeta | $1,632,159,051 | 3 | $544,053,017 |
| 78 | Bruce Jones | $1,607,295,469 | 13 | $123,638,113 |
| 79 | Jay Barton | $1,596,160,176 | 2 | $798,080,088 |
| 80 | Tom Wood | $1,536,670,344 | 5 | $307,334,069 |
| 81 | Michael Fink | $1,497,107,331 | 6 | $249,517,889 |
| 82 | Dean Wright | $1,476,947,176 | 4 | $369,236,794 |
| 83 | Grady Cofer | $1,466,085,748 | 5 | $293,217,150 |
| 84 | Paul Linden | $1,464,614,090 | 14 | $104,615,292 |
| 85 | Dominic Tuohy | $1,463,103,161 | 2 | $731,551,581 |
| 86 | Jeffrey A. Okun | $1,403,800,396 | 7 | $200,542,914 |
| 87 | Anders Langlands | $1,401,471,882 | 2 | $700,735,941 |
| 88 | Chas Jarrett | $1,401,167,364 | 5 | $280,233,473 |
| 89 | Adrian de Wet | $1,394,051,756 | 2 | $697,025,878 |
| 90 | Richard R. Hoover | $1,375,383,179 | 4 | $343,845,795 |
| 91 | Eric Barba | $1,363,835,976 | 6 | $227,305,996 |
| 92 | John Dykstra | $1,347,326,117 | 3 | $449,108,706 |
| 93 | Neal Scanlan | $1,322,581,071 | 1 | $1,322,581,071 |
| 94 | Ben Morris | $1,322,581,071 | 1 | $1,322,581,071 |
| 95 | Mike Mulholland | $1,322,581,071 | 1 | $1,322,581,071 |
| 96 | Rob Engle | $1,322,326,147 | 2 | $661,163,074 |
| 97 | Sean Phillips | $1,312,387,688 | 2 | $656,193,844 |
| 98 | Alex Wuttke | $1,308,323,302 | 1 | $1,308,323,302 |
| 99 | Bryan Hirota | $1,295,055,138 | 3 | $431,685,046 |
| 100 | Gary Bruins | $1,291,618,760 | 2 | $645,809,380 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.