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Carlo Rambaldi

Italian special effects designer (1925-2012) · Italy · Artists · Died at 86

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Carlo Rambaldi was an Italian special effects and makeup effects artist. He was the winner of three Academy Awards: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and...

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2012Died10 August 20121983Academy Award for Best Visual EffectsAward1980Academy Award for Best Visual EffectsAward1977Special Achievement Academy AwardAward1925Born15 September 1925

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects1983
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects1980
Special Achievement Academy Award1977
David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement

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Child: Vittorio Rambaldi

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Carlo Rambaldi was an Italian special effects and makeup effects artist. He was the winner of three Academy Awards: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In 2017, he was inducted into the Visual Effects Society Hall of Fame.

Country
Italy
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1925 to 2012 · aged 86

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