Robert Swarthe

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.
 * 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.

Preservation
The Academy Film Archive preserved Kick Me and The Unicycle Race by Swarthe.

As director

 * Uncle Walt (1964)
 * The Unicycle Race (1966)
 * K-9000: A Space Oddity (1968) with Robert Mitchell
 * 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)

In addition he appeared in a making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind video in 2001.