Oscar-Winning Local 600 Member Richard Edlund To Receive ASC Tribute

Richard Edlund, ASC will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Presidents Award in recognition of the contributions he has made to the art and craft of filmmaking. Edlund will be honored during the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration at the Hollywood & Highland Grand Ballroom on January 26, 2008.

Edlund has earned four Academy Awards® for his visual effects work on Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Return of the Jedi (1984), and six additional nominations for Poltergeist, 2010, Ghostbusters, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Die Hard and Alien 3. He has also earned three Scientific and Engineering Awards. Earlier this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the coveted John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation to Edlund in recognition of his significant contributions to the Academy.

“Richard Edlund has made an indelible impression on the art and craft of filmmaking,” says Russ Alsobrook, ASC, chairman of the organization’s Awards Committee. “He is an innovative artist who has created magical visual effects for many memorable motion pictures.”

Edlund has also earned an Emmy® for creating visual effects for the original
television miniseries Battlestar Galactica (1978), and an additional nomination for Mike Nichols’ Angels in America (2003). He has created seamless visual effects for such memorable films as Fright Night, Solarbabies, Ghost, Species, Multiplicity and Air Force One.

“Richard Edlund is an ASC member who continues to contribute to the progress
of visual effects from purely photographic methods to today’s digital techniques,” says ASC President Daryn Okada. “He uses his cinematographer’s eye in the creation of his work.”