
Joe Alves
Highest Rated: 97% Jaws (1975)
Lowest Rated: 3% 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).
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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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 |
3% | 17% | Shadow Conspiracy | Production Design | $2.3M | 1997 |
14% | 36% | Fire Down Below | Production Design | $16.1M | 1997 |
26% | 25% | Freejack | Production Design | $15.8M | 1992 |
11% | 17% | Jaws III | Director | - | 1983 |
88% | 77% | Escape From New York | Production Design | - | 1981 |
94% | 85% | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Production Design | $3.1M | 1977 |
97% | 90% | Jaws | Production Design | $272.2M | 1975 |
56% | 48% | Winning | Art Director | - | 1969 |