Carlo Rambaldi
| Carlo Rambaldi | |
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 Carlo Rambaldi in 2010 |
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| Born | September 15, 1925[1] Vigarano Mainarda, Italy |
| Died | August 10, 2012 (aged 86) Lamezia Terme, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Citizenship | Italian citizen |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna[2] |
| Occupation | Special effects Visual effects |
| Notable work(s) | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) King Kong (1976) |
| Spouse(s) | Bruna Rambaldi (née Basso) |
| Children | Vittorio Rambaldi Alessandro Rambaldi[1] |
| 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)[1] |
Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist who is most famous for designing the title character of the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien (1979) (for both Rambaldi won an Oscar).[3][4]
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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). In addition to the two Oscars for Visual Effects, he also won a third Special Achievement Academy Award for visual effects in John Guillermin's King Kong (1976).[5]
Rambaldi had 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.
Born in Vigarano Mainarda, Emilia Romagna, Rambaldi died on August 10, 2012 in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, where he had lived for many years.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Carlo Rambaldi at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Studying art at the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna
- ^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ "The 55th Academy Awards (1983) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9590601/Carlo-Rambaldi.html
- ^ (Italian) Article on la Repubblica
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