Nick Allder

Nicholas John Allder is an English special effects supervisor and coordinator. He started his career as an assistant camera operator and moved, after eight years, into special effects. He has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), and a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for the science-fiction film The Fifth Element (1997). Allder has worked on the set of high-grossing films such as the epic space opera The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and the historical drama film Braveheart (1995).

As Special Effects Director
Breakaway, Force of Life, War Games, Collision Course, Death's Other Dominion, Voyager's Return, Alpha Child, Guardian of Piri, Dragon's Domain, Mission of the Darians, Black Sun, End of Eternity, Matter of Life and Death, Earthbound, The Full Circle, Another Time, Another Place, The Testament of Arkadia, The Last Sunset, Ring Around the Moon, Missing Link, Space Brain, The Troubled Spirit, The Last Enemy, The Infernal Machine

As Lighting Cameraman
The Metamorph, The Exiles, Journey to Where, One Moment of Humanity, Brian the Brain, The Taybor, New Adam New Eve, The Mark of Archanon, The Rules of Luton, All That Glisters, The AB Chrysalis, Seed of Destruction, Catacombs of the Moon, Space Warp, A Matter of Balance, The Beta Cloud, The Lambda Factor, The Seance Spectre, The Bringers of Wonder - Part 1, The Bringers of Wonder - Part 2, Dorzak,  The Immunity Syndrome,  Devil's Planet, The Dorcons