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Joe Alves

Highest Rated: 97% Jaws (1975)

Lowest Rated: 7% Shadow Conspiracy (1997)

Birthday: May 21, 1936

Birthplace: San Leandro, California, USA

Alves has designed three feature for Steven Spielberg, including "Jaws" (1975) and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), for which he earned an Oscar nomination. He created a memorably derelict Gotham City for John Carpenter's science-fiction adventure, "Escape from New York" (1981) and served as visual consultant on Carpenter's "Starman" (1984). Alves made an inauspicious directing debut with "Jaws 3-D" (1983).

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Highest rated movies

97% 90% Jaws Watchlist 90% 85% Close Encounters of the Third Kind Watchlist
86% 77% Escape From New York
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63% 48% Winning
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50% 52% Geronimo: An American Legend
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45% 47% Everybody's All-American
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25% 25% Freejack
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14% 36% Fire Down Below
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11% 17% Jaws III
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7% 20% Shadow Conspiracy
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Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unmasking Monsters Below Unknown (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet 100% Sunset on the River Styx Chaz Franzel (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Key Lime Voodoo Card Reader (Character) - 2020
7% 20% Shadow Conspiracy Production Design $2.3M 1997
14% 36% Fire Down Below Production Design $16.1M 1997
50% 52% Geronimo: An American Legend Production Design $18.4M 1993
25% 25% Freejack Production Design $15.8M 1992
45% 47% Everybody's All-American Production Design $12.6M 1988
11% 17% Jaws III Director - 1983
86% 77% Escape From New York Production Design - 1981
90% 85% Close Encounters of the Third Kind Production Design $3.1M 1977
No Score Yet 17% Embryo Production Design - 1976
97% 90% Jaws Production Design $272.2M 1975
63% 48% Winning Art Director - 1969