Roger Guyett (born 5 August 1961; age 63) is a visual effects artist at Industrial Light & Magic who was ILM's Visual Effects Supervisor on Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. He was also the Second Unit Director for both films. He earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for Star Trek, which he shared with Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, and Burt Dalton. Star Trek marked Guyett's second collaboration with director and producer J.J. Abrams following the 2006 Paramount Pictures release Mission: Impossible III. In 2010 Guyett, Earl, Kavanagh, and Dalton received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Special Effects for their work on Star Trek. [1] Guyett, Dalton, Earl, and Shari Hanson received a Visual Effects Society Award nomination in 2010 for their work on Star Trek, in the category Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture and Guyett, Dalton, Earl, and Kavanagh also shared a BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best Special Visual Effects. Guyett worked two years on Star Trek Into Darkness, [2] for which he received another Saturn Award nomination in 2014. [3]
Guyett's first project for ILM was Casper (1995), for which he was senior technical director. He then worked a computer graphics supervisor on Twister (1996, featuring Zach Grenier, Richard Lineback, Alan Ruck, Scott Thomson and Sean Whalen) and Mars Attacks! (1996, starring Pierce Brosnan, featuring Michael Reilly Burke, Willie Garson and Paul Winfield). He was the associate visual effects supervisor for Speed 2: Cruise Control and the visual effects co-supervisor for Saving Private Ryan (1998) before being named visual effects supervisor at ILM.
In addition to Star Trek and Mission: Impossible III, Guyett has supervised ILM's visual effects team on Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). The latter film brought Guyett an Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. Guyett also supervised visual effects on Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (in which he even made a cameo appearance) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), both featuring Lee Arenberg.
Guyett's other film credits include The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000, featuring Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Max Grodénchik, Doug Jones and Norman Lloyd), Timeline (2003, starring Neal McDonough), The Amityville Horror (2005, starring Star Trek 2009 performers Jimmy Bennett and Rachel Nichols), and Rent (2005, featuring Joel Swetow). Between the two Star Trek films, Guyett worked as visual effects supervisor on Cowboys & Aliens (2011).
In 2016, Guyett shared an Academy Award nomination in the category Best Visual Effects with Patrick Tubach for his work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. [4]