Charles Rambaldi, the celebrated effects designer who won three Academy Awards for best special effects (in 1976 with King Kong, in 1979 with Alien and in 1982 with E.T. - The Extraterrestrial.), passed away today at the age of 86 in Lamezia Terme, Calabria.
The great artist from Emilia was introduced to the film industry in the 1950s where he worked for such directors as James Gentilomo, Marco Ferreri, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Mario Monicelli. In 1971 he turned to special effects for a sequence on vivisection in the film A lizard with a woman's skin by Lucio Fulci, as a result of which the Roman director was about to face a criminal conviction precisely because of Rambaldi's stunning realistic work.
The genius of this talented artist does not stop there. Italian titles such as. Deep Red by Dario Argento, and foreign films such as King Kong, Alien (where he participates in the creation of the alien along with H. R. Giger), Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Dune, enshrine the work of this extraordinary Emilian effector.
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