Richard Hoover is one of the industry's most highly regarded visual effects supervisors. In 2007, he received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for his work on Superman Returns.

Currently, Hoover is senior visual effects supervisor on the upcoming feature film, Valkyrie, for director Bryan Singer with whom he worked on Superman Returns.

Most recently Hoover completed work as Senior Visual Effects Supervisor on Blade Runner: The Final Cut on which he oversaw the refurbishment of several sequences in the film including the Zhora chase sequence, Deckard/Abdul Ben-Hassan sequence and the newly created opening eye shot composites.

Prior to joining Sony Pictures Imageworks in 2002, Hoover worked for Dream Quest Images, which later became The Secret Lab, for more than ten years. While at the company, he was visual effects supervisor on Reign Of Fire for director Rob Bowman, Unbreakable for director M. Night Shyamalan and Inspector Gadget for director David Kellogg and producer Jordan Kerner.

In 1998, Hoover teamed with director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer on Armageddon, which was nominated for an Oscar® in the category of Achievement in Visual Effects. During his early career, Hoover also served as visual effects supervisor on Jungle To Jungle and Freejack.

Preceding his work on feature films, Hoover was one of the first directors at Dream Quest Image’s commercial division, DQ Films, where he designed, shot and supervised effects shots. During his tenure at DQ Films, Hoover directed the movie trailer for Total Recall, which went on to win a Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1991.

Before moving to DQ Films, Hoover directed live action spots for New York-based Triplevision and Robert Abel & Associates.

At Robert Abel & Associates, a leading pioneer in the use of computer graphics in television commercials and film, Hoover worked with renowned and innovative commercial filmmaker, Robert Abel. With Abel, he had the opportunity to direct a variety of high profile commercials for national clients combining live action, computer graphics and a wide range of visual effects. With spots for Levi's and Wang, Hoover won several prestigious Clio awards and honors at film festivals in Cannes, New York and Chicago.

Hoover’s career began at Mid-Ocean Motion Pictures in Los Angeles where he tackled both live action and computer generated visual effects assignments. Here he demonstrated a keen understanding of character and drama, as well as a mastery of cutting edge technology.

Hoover is a graduate of the University of Oregon where he majored in Design with an emphasis in animation.