Special-effects veteran Stan Winston was awarded the Tesla Award for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology from the International Press Academy on Dec. 17, 2005, reports SCI FI WIRE.
Winston responded by saying, "This award is for technical innovation, and it's interesting that I'm getting this award, because I really don't know much about technology, and, in fact, I'm techno-ignorant. I am an artist... Any technology I created for special effects I was forced to develop in order to do the things I love... I created it for the characters in the movies."
Winston is best known for creating the creatures and effects for such films as the TERMINATOR movies, ALIENS and the JURASSIC PARK movies.
Past Tesla recipients included James Cameron, George Lucas and Jerry Lewis, who won last year's award for his innovation in camerawork.
The award is named after the inventor, physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla.
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