Joseph Vieira Alves, 76, son of Manuel and Margaret, beloved husband of Sylvia, brother to Mary, Micheal, David, and Debbie, father to Jeremy, Justin, John, and ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. The reason Jaws returned to theaters is to celebrate the 45th ...

The production designer of Jaws says the studio initially balked at the film — until a young Steven Spielberg convinced them it would be "big" Joe Alves, the film's production designer, tells PEOPLE ...

Oscar-nominated production designer Joe Alves will receive an Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Oscar-nominated production designer Joe Alves will ...

Oscar-nominated production designer Joe Alves, best known for his work on the Steven Spielberg classics Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws, will receive the Art Directors Guild Lifetime ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Back in 1974, director Steven Spielberg was attempting to pull off the seemingly impossible task ...

“It was terrible,” Alves told SYFY WIRE. “I came up with the idea of making it 3D. And so then I got the directing job, but then I realized they didn’t have any new cameras. They were all old. So we ...

Joe Alves (born 21 May 1936, San Leandro, California) is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on three of the Jaws films. He directed Jaws 3-D. Alves has designed ...

It's been 50 years, but Joe Alves vividly remembers the day he was contacted with an unusual request: "Can you build a shark?" Alves, now 89, had already been working as an art director for more than ...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary year of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975), the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will present Jaws: The Exhibition, the museum’s first large-scale exhibition dedicated to ...