Los Angeles: Hollywood filmmaker and visual-effects master Douglas Trumbull is receiving an honorary Academy Award.
The Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it will present its Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Trumbull, whose pioneering visual-effects credits include '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' and 'Blade Runner'.
Trumbull worked on last year's Brad Pitt-Terrence Malick drama 'The Tree of Life'," which featured grand images of the cosmos and the age of dinosaurs.
Hollywood filmmaker and visual-effects master Douglas Trumbull is receiving an honorary Academy Award.
The honorary Oscar will be presented to Trumbull at the academy's scientific and technical awards ceremony Feb. 11.
Trumbull is the 23rd recipient of the Sawyer Award, which honors technical contributions to Hollywood.
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The Tree of Life is a 2011 American drama film featuring some surreal and sci-fi elements, written and directed by Terrence Malick, and starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. The film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Fi ...
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of E ...
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)[1] to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. Th ...
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