Robert Legato
Personal Info
Known For Visual Effects
Gender Male
Birthday 1956-05-06 (68 years old)
Place of Birth Ocean Township, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As Rob Legato, 로버트 르가토
Robert Legato
Biography
Robert Legato directed the 2016 film Eloise. Legato has been nominated for five Academy Awards and has won three. His first win was for his visual effects work on Titanic, his second was for his work on Hugo and his third for The Jungle Book. In 1996, he won the BAFTA award for Best Achievement in Special Effects for Apollo 13, for which he also garnered his first Academy Award nomination. He won Academy Awards in Visual effects for Hugo and The Jungle Book. In 2020, he received his fifth Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects for The Lion King. Prior to his work in film, he was a Visual Effects Supervisor for Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1992, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1993. His work on the Star Trek franchise earned him three Emmy nominations and two wins, as well as an in-front-of-the-camera appearance on Reading Rainbow for an episode devoted to a behind-the-scenes look at TNG. Legato is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Visual Effects Society (VES).
Known For
Visual Effects
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
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as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
Director
as Second Unit Director
as Second Unit Director
as Director
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as Second Unit Director
as Second Unit Director
as Director
as Director
Actor
as Self
as Self (as Rob Legato)
as Self
Camera
as Second Unit Director of Photography
as Second Unit Director of Photography
Editor
as Editor
Crew
as Thanks