Robert Legato
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).
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
(Second Unit Director)
The Aviator
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Misery Loves Comedy
(Editor)
The Departed
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Eloise
(Director)
Titanic
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
The Jungle Book
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Learning to Drive
(Thanks)
What Lies Beneath
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Apollo 13
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Shutter Island
(Second Unit Director)
Interview with the Vampire
(Second Unit Director)
Interview with the Vampire
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Shutter Island
(Second Unit Director of Photography)
Shutter Island
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Second Unit Director of Photography)
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Second Unit Director)
Hugo
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
The Equalizer 3
(Second Unit Director)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Viewer's Choice Marathon
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
The Aviator
(Second Unit Director)
The Lion King
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Director)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Director)
Medal of Honor
(Director)