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Joe Alves

Highest Rated: 100% Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)

Lowest Rated: 7% 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).

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100% 95% Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story Watchlist 97% 98% Jaws Watchlist 91% 85% Close Encounters of the Third Kind Watchlist 70% 77% Escape From New York Watchlist 55% 52% Geronimo: An American Legend Watchlist 50% 48% Winning Watchlist 45% 47% Everybody's All-American Watchlist 30% 25% Freejack Watchlist 16% 36% Fire Down Below Watchlist 10% 17% Jaws III Watchlist
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Filmography

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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story 100% 95% 2025 Self Unmasking Monsters Below 2024 Actor Sunset on the River Styx 94% 2020 Chaz Franzel Actor Key Lime Voodoo 2020 Card Reader Actor Shadow Conspiracy 7% 19% 1997 Production Design Fire Down Below 16% 36% 1997 Production Design Geronimo: An American Legend 55% 52% 1993 Production Design Freejack 30% 25% 1992 Production Design Everybody's All-American 45% 47% 1988 Production Design Jaws III 10% 17% 1983 Director Escape From New York 70% 77% 1981 Production Design Close Encounters of the Third Kind 91% 85% 1977 Production Design Embryo 18% 1976 Production Design Jaws 97% 98% 1975 Production Design Scream, Pretty Peggy 1973 Art Director Winning 50% 48% 1969 Art Director
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