He won an Academy Award for his work on the 1977 film Star Wars. He has also worked on films such as Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Superman Returns, and The Avengers. He is the founder of the visual effects company, Dykstraflex.
John Dykstra is an American special effects artist with a net worth of $20 million. Born in Long Beach, California in 1947, he is a pioneer in the use of computers in filmmaking and won an Academy Award for his work on the 1977 film Star Wars. He has since worked on a number of other films, including Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Superman Returns, and The Avengers, and is the founder of the visual effects company, Dykstraflex.
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💰 Net worth: $20 Million (2024)
Dykstra co-founded Industrial Light & Magic which is the special effects and computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. Dykstra has worked in the visual effects department for the movies Silent Running, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Caddyshack, Invaders from Mars, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Spontaneous Combustion, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Stuart Little, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Hancock, Inglourious Basterds, X-Men: First Class, Django Unchained, Godzilla, Seventh Son, The Hateful Eight, and X-Men: Apocalypse. Dykstra won a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy Awards in 1978 and won another for Spider-Man 2 in 2005. He also won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1979 for Battlestar Galactica.
