CARLO RAMBALDI

Carlo Rambaldi (September 15, 1925 – August 10, 2012) was an Italian special effects artist who is most famous for designing the title character of the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien (1979) (for both Rambaldi won an Oscar).

Rambaldi also has worked on Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) (1975), King Kong (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Nightwing (1979), Possession (1981), Dune (1984), King Kong Lives (1986), and Cameron's Closet (1988). In addition to the two Oscars for Visual Effects, he also won a third Special Achievement Academy Award for visual effects in John Guillermin's King Kong (1976).

Rambaldi had the distinction of being the first special effects artist to be required to prove that his work on a film was not 'real'. Dog-mutilation scenes in the 1971 film A Lizard in a Woman's Skin were so convincingly visceral that its director, Lucio Fulci, was prosecuted for offences relating to animal cruelty. Rambaldi  had to show to a courtroom that the scene was not filmed using real animals.

1.     Carlo Rambaldi

a)     Was an Italian film director

b)    Designed E.T.

c)     Built E.T. on other designer’s work

d)    Did not like film special effects

2.     Carlo Rambaldi

a)     Won 2 Oscar

b)    Won 2 Oscar for E.T.

c)     Won Three Special Achievement Academy Award 

d)    Won the Italian prize “Donatello”

3.     Carlo Rambaldi

a)     Was accused to use artificial animals in his films

b)    Was accused of cruelty on actors

c)     Never used real animals in his films

d)    Never used real persons in his films