The Art Directors Guild has announced three recipients for its 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award. William J. Newmon II, Hollywood’s first African-American set designer, will be honored along with Oscar-nominated matte artist Harrison Ellenshaw and scenic artist Bill Anderson. ...
Starting his career at NBC as a stock scenery draftsman, Newmon later was hired at Disney to set design The Apple Dumpling Gang and The Shaggy D.A. His other film credits include 1982’s Poltergeist and Big Top Pee-Wee. ...
Ellenshaw, who produced many of the matte visual effects background for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back at George Lucas’ Industrial Light + Magic, was Oscar-nominated along with his father, Peter Ellenshaw, for the visual effects for The Black Hole. In 1982, the younger Ellenshaw became the first visual effects supervisor to be credited in a film for Tron. ...
Anderson’s backgrounds and mural artistry can be seen in films such as Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Voyage and Hello, Dolly! ...
I remember Harrison Ellenshaw telling me about doing the Star Wars mattes on a very tight deadline. The last one he did had to be shot and cut into prints of the film the day the movie went out to theaters. No matter how you slice it, that is one tight schedule.
Congrats to ALL the recipients.
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