Carlo Rambaldi

For the Italian painter of the Baroque period, see Carlo Antonio Rambaldi.

Carlo Rambaldi
Born	September 15, 1925 (1925-09-15) Vigarano Mainarda, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Citizenship	Italian citizen
Education	Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna
Occupation	Special effects Visual effects
Notable works	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) King Kong (1976)
Children	Alex Rambaldi
Awards	2 Oscars Academy Awards Special Achievement Award Saturn Award BAFTA Film Award (nominated) David di Donatello Special Los Angeles Film Critics Association Special Los Angeles Italian Film Awards Outstanding Achievement Award Mystfest Special Razzie Award (nominated)

Carlo Rambaldi (born 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy) is an Italian special effects artist who is most famous for designing the title character of the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien (for both Rambaldi won an Oscar). Rambaldi also has worked on Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) (1975), King Kong (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Nightwing (1979), Possession (1981), Dune (1984), King Kong Lives (1986), and Cameron's Closet (1988).

Rambaldi has the distinction of being the first special effects artist to be required to prove that his work on a film was not 'real'. Dog-mutilation scenes in the 1971 film A Lizard in a Woman's Skin were so convincingly visceral that its director, Lucio Fulci, was prosecuted for offences relating to animal cruelty. Fulci would have served a two-year prison sentence had Rambaldi not exhibited the film's array of props to a courtroom, proving that the scene was not filmed using real animals.

In pop culture

In the television series Alias, the brilliant and mysterious prophet and polymath Milo Rambaldi, whose work comprises much of the mythology and subplot of the show, was named after him.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Carlo Rambaldi at the Internet Movie Database