Iconic directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Terrence Malick don’t make movie magic all their own. Visual effects whiz Douglas Trumbull helped them craft the most visually stunning ...

FILE - U.S. film director and special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull poses with the Film Vision Award Pardo at the 66th Locarno International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland on Aug. 14, ...

Visionary visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, who died Monday, contributed his groundbreaking inventions and techniques to classics including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the ...

If you’ve watched a classic, landmark sci-fi movie and you were blown away by the quality and realism of its effects, then there’s a good chance Douglas Trumbull’s name is in the credits. The VFX ...

Trumbull, who brought otherworldly landscapes to life pioneered physical, not digital, effects that catapulted audiences into hyperspace and... '2001' and 'Blade Runner' visual effects wizard Douglas ...

Douglas Trumbull in a publicity portrait from the film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Douglas Trumbull, the pioneering, pre-digital, effects wizard who brought to life the impossible landscapes ...

Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Blade ...

Douglas Trumbull broke into movies with the career equivalent of a cinematic blockbuster. Working for a small animation shop, the young man talked his way into a London studio in 1965 to help organize ...