Robert Stromberg Robert " Rob " R . Stromberg ( born ) is an Emmy Award and Academy Award winning visual effects artist , specialized in matte painting s , who worked for Bill Taylor and Syd Dutton as part of their company Illusion Arts , Inc . on , the episodes and , the episode and the pilot episode . For " Tribunal " , Stromberg created the matte painting of Cardassia Prime and for " Caretaker " created the matte paintings for the Ocampa underground city . During his time on " Star Trek " , Stromberg earned one Emmy Award nomination and two wins . Stromberg earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Special Visual Effects in 1995 for his work on the television drama " Fatherland " , shared with Richard Patterson and David S . Williams , Jr . , In 2008 he won another Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries , Movie or a Special for the " John Adams " episode " Join Or Die " , for which he also won two Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial and for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries , Movie or Special . He was previously nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award in 2006 for his work on the drama " Memoirs of a Geisha " . His work on ' s war drama " Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World " in 2004 earned him three more nominations and one win : an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects , a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects , a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture , shared with Brooke Breton , and the win of a Golden Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects . Stromberg , the son of filmmaker William R . Stromberg and the brother of composer William T . Stromberg , started his career in the late ' 80s and worked as matte artist on the horror comedy " Meet the Hollowheads " ( 1989 , written and directed by Thomas R . Burman ) , the adventure movie " Journey to the Center of the Earth " ( 1989 , with Patrick T . Myers and Brick Price ) , and the horror sequel " A Nightmare on Elm Street : The Dream Child " ( 1989 , with Robert D . Bailey , Jammie Friday , Peter Kuran , Jeff Matakovich , and Chris Dawson ) . The following years he worked as matte artist / digital matte artist on projects such as the fantasy action film " Tremors " ( 1990 ) , the thriller " Cape Fear " ( 1991 ) , the thriller " A Few Good Men " ( 1992 ) , the fantasy comedy " Addams Family Values " ( 1993 ) , the comedy sequel " Naked Gun 33 1 / 3 : The Final Insult " ( 1994 ) , ' horror thriller " From Dusk Till Dawn " ( 1996 ) , the comedy " The Birdcage " ( 1996 ) , the fantasy adventure " Dragonheart " ( 1996 ) , the action thriller " Daylight " ( 1996 ) , the drama " Patch Adams " ( 1998 ) , the science fiction film " Battlefield Earth : A Saga of the Year 3000 " ( 2000 ) , the drama " Cast Away " ( 2000 ) , the thriller " 15 Minutes " ( 2001 ) , the science fiction comedy " Men in Black II " ( 2002 ) , ' s crime drama " Catch Me If You Can " ( 2002 ) , the action thriller " Bad Boys II " ( 2003 ) , and the fantasy film " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen " ( 2003 ) . In the more recent years Stromberg was mainly credited as visual effects supervisor and worked on the fantasy film " The Chronicles of Riddick " ( 2004 ) , the science fiction film " Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow " ( 2004 ) , ' s drama " The Aviator " ( 2004 ) , the television pilot for " Men in Trees " ( 2006 ) , the comic adaptation " Ghost Rider " ( 2007 ) , the fantasy sequel " Pirates of the Caribbean : At World ' s End " ( 2007 ) , the thriller " There Will Be Blood " ( 2007 ) , and the action comedy " Tropic Thunder " ( 2008 ) . His most recent credits as matte artist include the science fiction action film " G . I . Joe : Rise of the Cobra " ( 2009 ) and the science fiction thriller " 2012 " ( 2009 ) , as visual effects designer the thriller " The Road " ( 2009 ) and the mystery thriller " Shutter Island " ( 2010 ) , as visual effects supervisor the drama " Angel Camouflaged " ( 2010 ) and the pilot for the television series " Games of Thrones " ( 2009 ) , and as production designer ' s science fiction thriller " Avatar " ( 2009 ) and ' s fantasy adventure " Alice in Wonderland " ( 2010 ) . In 2010 Stromberg and Rick Carter received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Production Design for their work on " Avatar " . " Star Trek " production designer Scott Chambliss is also nominated in this category . Stromberg , Rick Carter , and Kim Sinclair won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction for their work on " Avatar " at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards . In 2011 Stromberg and Karen O ' Hara received the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction for their work on ' s fantasy movie " Alice in Wonderland " at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards . Also in 2011 he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the crime series " Boardwalk Empire " . Emmy Awards . Stromberg received the following Emmy Award wins and nomination in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects :