By Ciaran Duggan,
Dennis Murren, Phil Tippett, Richard Edlund and Ken Ralston received a Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for their work on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi at the 56th Academy Awards.
The film had been nominated for five Oscars: Best Sound Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Sound Mixing and Best Production Design.
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By: Dominic Jones
One of the pioneers behind the visual effects of the Original Trilogy is getting some well deserved recognition. Ken Ralston, who served as Visual Effects Supervisor on Return of the Jedi, is receiving the Visual Effects Society's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th annual VES Awards on February 7th. Ralston also worked as assistant cameraman for the miniature and optical effects unit on A New Hope and effects cameraman on the miniature and optical effects unit on The Empire Strikes Back.
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