Porter, Aldric La'Auli

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Porter, Aldric La'Auli

(Aldric Porter)

PERSONAL

Career: Producer and assistant director.

Awards, Honors: Directors Guild of America Award (with others), outstanding directorial achievement in motion pictures, 1996, for Apollo 13; Directors Guild of America Award(with others), outstanding directorial achievement in motion pictures, 2002, for A Beautiful Mind.

CREDITS

Film Work:

(As Aldric Porter) Intern, D.C. Cab (also known as Street Fleet and Mr. T and Company), 1983.

Second assistant director: U.S.A., European Vacation (also known as National Lampoon's "European Vacation"), Warner Bros., 1985.

(As Aldric Porter) Second assistant director, Stick, 1985.

Assistant director, Murphy's Romance, Columbia, 1985.

Second assistant director, The Morning After, 1986.

Second assistant director, Running Scared, 1986.

Second assistant director, Gung Ho (also known as Working Class Man), 1986.

Second assistant director, Violets Are Blue …, 1986.

First assistant director, Nuts, Warner Bros., 1987.

First assistant director, Mississippi Burning, Orion, 1988.

(As Aldric Porter) First assistant director, Washington, DC, Chances Are, 1989.

First assistant director, Black Rain, Paramount, 1989.

First assistant director, San Francisco, Casualties of War, 1989.

First assistant director, Come See the Paradise, 1990.

First assistant director, Backdraft, Universal, 1991.

First assistant director, Ireland, Far and Away, 1992.

(As Aldric Porter) First assistant director, Indecent Proposal, United International Pictures, 1993.

First assistant director, True Lies, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1994.

(San Francisco) Being Human, 1994.

First assistant director and associate producer, The Paper, Universal, 1994.

First assistant director and associate producer, Apollo 13, Universal, 1995.

(As Aldric Porter) First assistant director, second unit, Larger Than Life, United Artists, 1996.

First assistant director, T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (also known as T2: Terminator 2: 3-D and Terminator 2: 3-D), 1996.

First assistant director and associate producer, Ransom, Buena Vista, 1996.

(As Aldric Porter) First assistant director and associate producer, As Good As It Gets, TriStar, 1997.

First assistant director and associate producer, Dance with Me, Columbia, 1998.

First assistant director and associate producer, Edtv (also known as Ed TV), Universal, 1999.

First assistant director, The Testaments: Of Fold and One Shepherd (also known as The Testaments), 2000.

(As Aldric Porter) First assistant director, Los Angeles, Best in Show, Warner Bros., 2000.

First assistant director, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (also known as Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," The Grinch, and Der Grinch), Universal, 2000.

First assistant director and associate producer, Dr. Do-little 2 (also known as DR.2 and DR2), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001.

First assistant director and associate producer, A Beautiful Mind, Universal, 2001.

First assistant director and associate producer, The Cat in the Hat (also known as Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat"), Universal, 2003.

First assistant director and associate producer, The Missing, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2003.

Coproducer and assistant director, Spanglish, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2004.

Producer, A House Divided, 2006.

First assistant director, Monster House (also known as Neighbourhood Crimes & Peeppers), Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2006.

Television Work; Series:

First assistant director, The Tick, Fox, 2001–2002.

Television Work; Movies:

Second assistant director, His Mistress, 1984.