Carlo Rambaldi
| Carlo Rambaldi | |
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Carlo Rambaldi in 2010
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| Born |
September 15, 1925 Vigarano Mainarda, Italy |
| Died | August 10, 2012 (aged 86) Lamezia Terme, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Citizenship | Italian citizen |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna |
| Occupation |
Special effects Visual effects |
| Notable work |
King Kong (1976) Alien (1979) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
| Spouse(s) | Bruna Basso |
| Children | Vittorio one daughter |
| Awards | 3 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 (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist, winner of three Oscars: 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.
Carlo Rambaldi was born September 15 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Emilia-Romagna. He studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, where he developed a passion for electromechanics and the skeleton and musculature of the human body. He was heavily influenced by the work of Picasso and the Italian artist Renato Guttuso.
Rambaldi's first work in film was creating a fire-breathing dragon for the 1957 Italian picture Sigfrido (titled in the English version as The Dragon's Blood).
In 1963 he became a full-time special effects artist. He worked with Italian directors including Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Monicelli and Dario Argento. Some films he worked on included Medusa vs the Son of Hercules (1962), Bloody Pit of Horror (1965), Planet of the Vampires (1965), Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965), L'Odissea (1968, a TV miniseries), A Bay of Blood (1972), The Night 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 Third Kind (1977), Alien (1979), Nightwing (1979), Possession (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Dune (1984), Conan the Destroyer (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), King Kong Lives (1986) or Cameron's Closet (1988), among others.
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