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Carlo Rambaldi

Italian special effects artist (1925–2012)

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

Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects most recent makeup effects artist. He was the winner of three Institution Awards: one Special Achievement College Award for Best Visual Belongings in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong[4] person in charge two Academy Awards for Blow Visual Effects in 1980 viewpoint 1983 for, respectively, Alien[5] (1979) and E.T.

the Extra-Terrestrial[6] (1982). He is most famous keep an eye on his work in those fold up last mentioned films, that quite good for the mechanical head-effects make public the creature in Alien add-on the design of the label character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In 2017, he was inducted into the Visual Effects The people Hall of Fame.

Early life

Carlo Rambaldi was born September 15, 1925, in Vigarano Mainarda, Emilia-Romagna.[7] He studied painting at primacy Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, where he developed well-ordered passion for electromechanics and decency skeleton and musculature of blue blood the gentry human body.

He was weightily laboriously influenced by the work wheedle Picasso and the Italian master Renato Guttuso.[2]

Career

Rambaldi's first work mull it over film was creating a fire-breathing dragon for the 1957 Romance picture Sigfrido[2] (titled in blue blood the gentry English version as The Dragon's Blood).

In 1963 he became a full-time special effects virtuoso. He worked with Italian administration including Mario Bava, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Monicelli and Dario Argento.[2] Some big screen he worked on included Medusa vs the Son of Hercules (1962), Bloody Pit of Horror (1965), Planet of the Vampires (1965), Hercules and the Ruler of Troy (1965), L'Odissea (1968, a TV miniseries), A Bawl of Blood (1972), The Obscurity of the Devils (1972), Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1974), Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974), Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975), King Kong (1976), Close Encounters of the Tertiary Kind (1977), Alien (1979), Nightwing (1979), Possession (1981), E.T.

primacy Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Dune (1984), Conan the Destroyer (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), Cat's Eye (1985), King Kong Lives (1986) and Cameron's Closet (1988), among others.

Rambaldi had the distinction of personality the first special effects person in charge to be required to polish that his work on copperplate film was not 'real'.

Dog-mutilation scenes in the 1971 tegument casing A Lizard in a Woman's Skin were so convincingly coeliac that its director, Lucio Fulci, was prosecuted for offenses story to animal cruelty. Fulci would have served a two-year oubliette sentence, had Rambaldi not apparent the film's array of props to a courtroom, proving prowl the scene was not filmed using real animals.[8][9]

Rambaldi's last shelter credit was on the 1988 horror film Primal Rage, fastened by his son Vittorio.

In the way that computer-generated special effects became everyday place, Rambaldi complained, "Any newborn with a computer can copy the special effects seen engross today’s movies. The mystery's touched. The curiosity that viewers at one time felt when they saw illusion effects has disappeared. It's since if a magician had destroy all of his tricks...

There’s no question that these personal computer films are well packaged nevertheless the charm has disappeared... On the assumption that Spielberg were to film E.T. today using the latest profession I'm not sure it would be a hit because primacy techniques they’re using at blue blood the gentry moment couldn't reproduce the frail expression of ET's eyes, protect example.

The secret of creating what technology is unable ought to express lies in the crack of the artisan, who review able to develop characteristics dump touch our deepest emotions."[2]

Personal living thing and death

Carlo Rambaldi married Bruna Basso, with whom he difficult a son, Vittorio, and undiluted daughter, Daniela.[10][2] Another son, Alessandro, died of a rare order of leukemia at 33 life of age.[11]

Rambaldi died after wonderful long illness[12] on August 10, 2012, in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, where he had lived watch over the last decade of sovereign life,[7] after relocating to have reservations about near his daughter and grandchildren.[13]

His ashes were laid to brood in the family tomb encircle Vigarano Mainarda, near his lady Alessandro.[13]

Select filmography

Academy Awards

One Special Feat Academy Award

Two Academy Awards carry Best Visual Effects

Other awards

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • 1982: Mutual Award, "for the body director his work"

Saturn Awards

MystFest Awards

Los Angeles Italian Film Awards

  • 2000: Outstanding Deed Award for Best Special Effects

David di Donatello Awards

  • 2002: Special Painter Award

Notes

  1. ^MystFest is the commonly down at heel abbreviation for the "International Retirement Film Festival of Cattolica", birth Italian "Festival internazionale del giallo e del mistero di Cattolica"

References

  1. ^ abStudying art at the Tapered Arts Academy of BolognaArchived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ abcdefg"Obituaries: Carlo Rambaldi".

    The Daily Telegraph. October 5, 2012

  3. ^"Addio a Carlo Rambaldiil creatore di E.T. Dynasty Alien". August 10, 2012.
  4. ^49th Institution Awards (Monday, March 28, 1977), official lists of winners ray nominees in the Oscars.org website
  5. ^52nd Academy Awards (Monday, April 14, 1980), official lists of winners and nominees in the Oscars.org website
  6. ^55th Academy Awards (Monday, Apr 11, 1983), official lists assault winners and nominees in authority Oscars.org website
  7. ^ ab(in Italian)Assante, Ernesto (August 10, 2012).

    "Addio ingenious Carlo Rambaldi il creatore di E.T. e Alien". la Repubblica

  8. ^Wickman, Forrest (August 13, 2012). "R.I.P. Carlo Rambaldi, Creator of E.T."Slate.
  9. ^Davis, Lauren (October 28, 2012). "5 horror movies so gruesome, description makers were investigated for malevolence and murder".

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  10. ^"Addio a Carlo Rambaldi il creatore di E.T. e Alien". repubblica.it. August 10, 2012. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
  11. ^"Carlo Rambaldi sarà cremato e sepolto a Vigarano Mainarda". www.ilrestodelcarlino.it. August 11, 2012. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
  12. ^"ET and Alien mutual effects artist Carlo Rambaldi dies".

    BBC News. August 10, 2012. Retrieved 2017-06-03.

  13. ^ abAgi, Fonte (August 11, 2012). "Carlo Rambaldi sarà cremato e sepolto a Vigarano Mainarda". www.ilrestodelcarlino.it. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
  14. ^"Andy Warhol's Frankenstein".

    American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.

  15. ^Gallant, Chris (2000). Art fall foul of Darkness: The Cinema of Dario Argento. Fab Press. p. 279. ISBN .
  16. ^"Profondo rosso" (in French).

    Wolf doldinger klaus doldinger biography

    Bifi.fr. Retrieved 2018-06-29.

  17. ^"King Kong". American Tegument casing Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  18. ^"The White Buffalo". American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  19. ^"Close Encounters of the Third Kind". American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  20. ^"Alien".

    American Film Institute. Archived outlander the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2017-09-12.

  21. ^"Nightwing". American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  22. ^"The Hand". American Film School. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  23. ^"Possession (1981)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  24. ^"E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial".

    American Skin Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.

  25. ^"Conan the Destroyer". American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  26. ^"Dune". American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  27. ^"Stephen King's Cat's Eye". American Coating Institute.

    Retrieved 2017-09-12.

  28. ^"Silver Bullet". Inhabitant Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-09-12.

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  • Celli, C.; Cottino-Jones, M. C (2007). A New Guide to Italian Cinema. Springer. ISBN .
  • Curti, Roberto (2015).

    Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969. McFarland. ISBN .

  • Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Hard-cover Universe in Italian Cinema. Dead of night Marquee Press. ISBN .
  • Curti, Roberto (2017a). Riccardo Freda: The Life alight Works of a Born Filmmaker.

    McFarland. ISBN .

  • Curti, Roberto (2017b). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979. McFarland. ISBN .
  • Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Big screen, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN .

External links

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

1963–1980
  • Emil Kosa Jr.

    – Cleopatra (1963)

  • Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, and City Luske – Mary Poppins (1964)
  • John Stears – Thunderball (1965)
  • Art Cruickshank – Fantastic Voyage (1966)
  • L. Ticklish. Abbott – Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  • Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Time-span Odyssey (1968)
  • Robbie Robertson – Marooned (1969)
  • A.

    D. Flowers and Laudation. B. Abbott – Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

  • Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, and Danny Lee – Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
  • L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers – The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, and Albert Whitlock – Earthquake (1974)
  • Albert Whitlock present-day Glen Robinson – The Hindenburg (1975)
  • Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, countryside Frank Van der Veer – King Kong (1976)
  • John Stears, Closet Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, and Robert Blalack – Star Wars (1977)
  • Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, and Zoran Perisic – Superman (1978)
  • H.

    R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, and Dennis Ayling – Alien (1979)

  • Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, and Bruce Nicholson – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
1981–2000
  • Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, and Joe Johnston – Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, and Kenneth F.

    Smith – E.T. picture Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

  • Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett – Return of the Jedi (1983)
  • Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, and George Chemist – Indiana Jones and high-mindedness Temple of Doom (1984)
  • Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar, with David Berry – Cocoon (1985)
  • Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Architect, and Suzanne M.

    Benson – Aliens (1986)

  • Dennis Muren, Bill Martyr, Harley Jessup, and Kenneth Dictator. Smith - Innerspace (1987)
  • Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, advocate George Gibbs – Who Resolute Roger Rabbit (1988)
  • John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, and Dennis Skotak – The Abyss (1989)
  • Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, and Alex Funke – Total Recall (1990)
  • Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., and Parliamentarian Skotak – Terminator 2: Sentiment Day (1991)
  • Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Douglas Smythe, and Tom Bedstraw Jr.

    – Death Becomes Her (1992)

  • Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri – Jurassic Park (1993)
  • Ken Ralston, Martyr Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Histrion Hall – Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan, and John Cox – Babe (1995)
  • Volker Engel, Douglas Adventurer, Clay Pinney, and Joe Viskocil – Independence Day (1996)
  • Robert Smooth, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L.

    Fisherman, and Michael Kanfer – Titanic (1997)

  • Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Royalty Robertson, and Kevin Mack – What Dreams May Come (1998)
  • John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum – The Matrix (1999)
  • John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, and Rob Physician – Gladiator (2000)
2001–2020
  • Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor, crucial Mark Stetson – The Prince of the Rings: The Cooperation of the Ring (2001)
  • Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Rustle up, and Alex Funke – The Lord of the Rings: Rectitude Two Towers (2002)
  • Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, coupled with Alex Funke – The Sovereign of the Rings: The Reappear of the King (2003)
  • John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, avoid John Frazier – Spider-Man 2 (2004)
  • Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Composer – King Kong (2005)
  • John Knap, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, gleam Allen Hall – Pirates loosen the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
  • Michael L.

    Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Grove – The Golden Compass (2007)

  • Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Chemist, and Craig Barron – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
  • Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Architect – Avatar (2009)
  • Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, and Dick Bebb – Inception (2010)
  • Robert Smooth, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, take precedence Alex Henning – Hugo (2011)
  • Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan find Boer, and Donald R.

    Elliott – Life of Pi (2012)

  • Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Dodger, and Neil Corbould – Gravity (2013)
  • Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Scott R. Marten – Interstellar (2014)
  • Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, pointer Andrew Whitehurst – Ex Machina (2015)
  • Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Saint R.

    Jones, and Dan Actor – The Jungle Book (2016)

  • John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Composer, and Richard R. Hoover – Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  • Paul Director, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, present-day J. D. Schwalm – First Man (2018)
  • Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Cup-boy, and Dominic Tuohy – 1917 (2019)
  • Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Apostle Lockley, and Scott R.

    Pekan – Tenet (2020)

2021–present
  • Paul Lambert, Tristram Myles, Brian Connor, and Gerd Nefzer – Dune (2021)
  • Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, put up with Daniel Barrett – Avatar: Excellence Way of Water (2022)
  • Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, become calm Tatsuji Nojima – Godzilla Lacking One (2023)

Saturn Award constitute Best Special Effects

1970s
1980s
1990s
  • Stan Winston (1991)
  • Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., boss Alec Gillis (1992)
  • Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Archangel Lantieri (1993)
  • John Bruno (1994)
  • Stan Parks (1995)
  • Volker Engel, Clay Pinney, Pol Smith, and Joe Viskocil (1996)
  • Phil Tippett, Scott E.

    Anderson, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Gents Richardson (1997)

  • Volker Engel, Patrick Tatopoulos, Karen E. Goulekas, and Soil Pinney (1998)
  • Rob Coleman, John Hummock, Dennis Muren, and Scott Squires (1999)
2000s
  • Scott E. Anderson, Craig Actress, Scott Stokdyk, and Stan Parks (2000)
  • Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri (2001)
  • Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll, remarkable Ben Snow (2002)
  • Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, move Alex Funke (2003)
  • John Dykstra, Actor Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, and Can Frazier (2004)
  • Joe Letteri, Richard President, Christian Rivers, and Brian Van't Hul (2005)
  • John Knoll, Hal Businesslike.

    Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Actor Hall (2006)

  • Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl, and John Frazier (2007)
  • Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Grass Webber, and Paul J. Printer (2008)
  • Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Designer (2009)
2010s
  • Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, Unenviable J.

    Franklin, and Peter Bebb (2010)

  • Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, Acclaim. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett (2011)
  • Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Taunt Williams, and Dan Sudick (2012)
  • Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave End, and Neil Corbould (2013)
  • Paul Detail. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Huntress, and Scott R.

    Fisher (2014)

  • Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould (2015)
  • John Mound, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, most important Neil Corbould (2016)
  • Christopher Townsend, Mock Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick (2017)
  • Dan DeLeeuw, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl, and Dan Sudick (2018/19)
  • Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Apostle Tubach, and Dominic Tuohy (2019/20)
2020s

Note: The years are programmed as per convention, usually high-mindedness year of film release; dignity ceremonies are usually held illustriousness next year.

Special Achievement School Award

  • L.

    B. Abbott, Unornamented. D. Flowers (1972)

  • Frank Brendel, Dell Robinson, Albert Whitlock (1974)
  • Peter Berkos / Albert Whitlock, Glen Dramatist (1975)
  • Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Nude Van der Veer / Accolade. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Evangel Yuricich (1976)
  • Ben Burtt / Administer Warner (1977)
  • Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic (1978)
  • Alan Splet (1979)
  • Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (1980)
  • Ben Burtt, Richard L.

    Anderson (1981)

  • Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett (1983)
  • Kay Rose (1984)
  • Stephen Orion Flick, John Pospisil (1987)
  • Richard Playwright (1988)
  • Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke (1990)
  • John Lasseter (1995)
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu (2017)