Joe Alves

Joe Alves Headshot

Production Designer • Director

Birth Date: May 21, 1936

Age: 89 years old

Birth Place: San Leandro, California

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).

Credits

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Self
Movie
2025

Unmasking Monsters Below

Actor
Movie
2024

Key Lime Voodoo

Actor
Card Reader
Movie
2020

Sunset on the River Styx

Actor
Chaz Franzel
Movie
2020

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

Self
Movie
2016

Shadow Conspiracy

Production Design
Movie
1997

Fire Down BelowStream

Production Design
Movie
1997
14%

Geronimo: An American LegendStream

Production Design
Movie
1993
50%

FreejackStream

Production Design
Movie
1992
25%

Everybody's All-American

Production Designer
Movie
1988

Jaws 3-DStream

Director
Movie
1983
11%

Escape From New YorkStream

Production Design
Movie
1981
86%

Close Encounters of the Third KindStream

Production Designer
Movie
1977
90%

Embryo

Production Designer
Movie
1976

JawsStream

Production Design
Movie
1975
97%

Scream, Pretty Peggy

Art Director
Movie
1973

Winning

Art Director
Movie
1969