Joe Letteri, Wellington, ONZM, for services to film
Mr Joe Letteri is a Senior Visual Effect Supervisor, and winner of four Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and seven VES awards. He is the current Director of the Academy Award-winning Wellington-based Weta Digital, having joined the company in 2001. He has been the visual effects supervisor of several movies, his latest work being ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He gave the keynote address at the University of California Berkeley's December Convocation in 2010. Mr Letteri’s many film credits also include ‘Avatar’, ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘King Kong’, ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ and ‘The Lovely Bones’.