Ulitzer95 10,969 Posted February 6, 2023 Robert Dalva (wiki), American film editor, dead from lymphoma aged 80. Nominated for an Academy Award for Black Stallion (1979). Other credits include Raising Cain (1992), Jumanji (1995), and Jurassic Park III (2001). Dalva was part of "The Dirty Dozen" group (wiki) of filmmaking students who attended the University of Southern California together in the mid-1960s. The group also included George Lucas. Dalva is the first of the dozen to die. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,967 Posted February 26, 2023 10 hours ago, tracy said: Walter Mirisch dead at 101. Walter Mirisch QO for the DDP: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/walter-mirisch-dies-oscar-winning-004538330.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,527 Posted March 18, 2023 Jacques Boigelot (Wiki), Belgian film director dead at 93 His film Paix sur les champs (1970) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,527 Posted March 22, 2023 Peter Werner (Wiki), American film director dead at 76 from heart complications. In 1977, Werner won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for directing the short film In the Region of Ice. Since then he worked on primarily directing television amassing a number of television film credits namely Mama Flora's Family, Two Mothers for Zachary, Call Me Claus, I Married a Centerfold, Gracie's Choice, Mom at Sixteen, Tempting Fate, among other films including Front of the Class (2008). 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,967 Posted April 6, 2023 Death reported of British production designer Norman Reynolds, who was a co-winner of the Academy Award for production design on Star Wars: A New Hope and also on Raiders Of The Lost Ark: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65200513 He was nominated for the other two parts of the original Star Wars trilogy and also for Empire Of The Sun. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,967 Posted April 6, 2023 4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Death reported of British production designer Norman Reynolds, who was a co-winner of the Academy Award for production design on Star Wars: A New Hope and also on Raiders Of The Lost Ark: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65200513 He was nominated for the other two parts of the original Star Wars trilogy and also for Empire Of The Sun. I should point out that Norman Reynolds was last picked for the DDP in 2022 for @Death Impends: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_R.html#reynon Having been consistently picked for the past few years, I'm surprised he was dropped this year. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,527 Posted April 29, 2023 Cilia van Dijk (Wiki), Dutch film producer known, for her work in Anna & Bella which earned an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film dead at 81 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,939 Posted June 2, 2023 Glenn Farr, one of the film editors who won the editing award for The Right Stuff, dead, aged 77, complications from a brain tumour. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,091 Posted July 19, 2023 Sue Marx, who won the 1988 Oscar for 'Best Documentary Short' for her film 'Young at Heart', which chronicled the relationship between her father and his second wife, both artists and each a widower/widow, has died. She was 92. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/17/sue-marx-oscar-winning-filmmaker-dies-at-92/70422900007/ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,967 Posted August 7, 2023 On 11/07/2018 at 15:27, Bibliogryphon said: but what about Directors I hear you cry... Thankfully help is at hand 1971 William Friedkin 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 1977 Woody Allen 1979 Robert Benton 1980 Robert Redford 1981 Warren Beatty 1983 James L Brooks 1986 Oliver Stone 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 1988 Barry Levinson The most recent gap is 1996 with Anthony Minghella for directing The English Patient. William Friedkin's death noted here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/07/william-friedkin-dies-age-87-director-the-exorcist Obvs Bertolucci dead for some time. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,969 Posted August 7, 2023 Double Oscar death day. Arthur Schmidt (wiki) dead at 86. Won the Oscar for Best Editing in 1988 for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Other notable credits – all 3 Back to the Future films, Jaws 2, Marathon Man, Beaches, and Cast Away. Hollywood Reporter obit. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 8,622 Posted August 8, 2023 Update for the ten earliest surviving Director Oscar winners after William Friedkin's death 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 1977 Woody Allen 1979 Robert Benton 1980 Robert Redford 1981 Warren Beatty 1983 James L Brooks 1986 Oliver Stone 1988 Barry Levinson 1990 Kevin Costner 1992 Clint Eastwood 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arrowsmith 331 Posted August 8, 2023 9 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said: Update for the ten earliest surviving Director Oscar winners after William Friedkin's death 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 1977 Woody Allen 1979 Robert Benton 1980 Robert Redford 1981 Warren Beatty 1983 James L Brooks 1986 Oliver Stone 1988 Barry Levinson 1990 Kevin Costner 1992 Clint Eastwood Worth noting that Oliver Stone also won in 1989. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,813 Posted October 18, 2023 Osvaldo Desideri was born in Rome and died at the age of 84, he won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor in 1988 https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/people/2023/10/18/news/osvaldo_desideri_morto_lo_scenografo_premio_oscar_per_lultimo_imperatore-418163668/ 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,969 Posted December 6, 2023 On 21/02/2022 at 12:44, Ulitzer95 said: Time for a round-up of the oldest living winners and nominees. Listed below is everyone turning 95+ in 2022: Bill Butler b. 7 Apr 1921, cinematographer (nominee – "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", 1975) DDP pick Walter Mirisch b. 8 Nov 1921, producer (winner – "In the Heat of the Night", 1967) DDP pick Norman Lear b. 27 Jul 1922, screenwriter (nominee – "Divorce American Style", 1967) DDP pick Peter Berkos b. 15 Aug 1922, sound editor (winner – "The Hindenburg", 1975) not picked Glynis Johns b. 5 Oct 1923, actress (nominee – "The Sundowners", 1960) DDP pick Eva Marie Saint b. 4 Jul 1924, actress (winner – "On the Waterfront", 1954) DDP pick Alan Bergman b. 11 Sep 1925, songwriter (3 wins, 13 more nominations) DDP pick Jean-Charles Tacchella b. 23 Sep 1925, screenwriter (nominee – "Cousin Cousine", 1975) not picked Phyllis Dalton MBE b. 16 Oct 1925, costume designer (2 wins – "Doctor Zhivago", 1965 and "Henry V", 1989, 1 more nomination) DDP pick Dame Angela Lansbury b. 16 Oct 1925, actress (winner – honorary award, 3 more nominations) DDP pick Lee Grant b. 31 Oct 1925, actress (winner – "Shampoo", 1975, 3 more nominations) DDP pick Albert Brenner b. 17 Feb 1926, art director (5 nominations) not picked Roger Corman b. 5 Apr 1926, director (winner – honorary award) DDP pick Mel Brooks b. 28 Jun 1926, screenwriter and songwriter (winner – "The Producers", 1969, 2 more nominations) DDP pick Norman Jewison b. 21 Jul 1926, director (winner – honorary award, 7 more nominations) DDP pick Laurence Rosenthal b. 4 Nov 1926, composer (2 nominations) DDP pick Lawrence Turman b. 28 Nov 1926, producer (nominee – "The Graduate", 1967) not picked Arthur Cohn b. 4 Feb 1927, documentary producer (3 wins, 1 more nomination) DDP pick Harry Belafonte b. 1 Mar 1927, singer-songwriter and actor (winner – honorary award) DDP pick Rosemary Harris b. 19 Sep 1927 actress (nominee – "Tom & Viv", 1994) DDP pick Marcel Ophuls b. 1 Nov 1927 documentary filmmaker (winner – "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie", 1988) not picked Estelle Parsons b. 20 Nov 1927 actress (winner – Bonnie and Clyde", 1967, 1 more nomination) DDP pick Peter Berkos, 101, is now the oldest living Oscar winner and the last born in 1922. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,164 Posted December 7, 2023 18 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said: Peter Berkos, 101, is now the oldest living Oscar winner and the last born in 1922. Someone should select him for the DDP next year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,969 Posted December 7, 2023 1 hour ago, The Old Crem said: Someone should select him for the DDP next year. My son, I’ve been pumping out name suggestions on here long before you were playing hopscotch as a wee bairn. Do most of them get some form of QO? Yes. Does anyone pick them on the DDP? Of course not. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,939 Posted February 2 Mark Gustafson, winner for co-directing Pinocchio, being mourned by his co-winner Guillermo del Toro on the x. 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Commtech Sio Bibble 1,328 Posted February 23 Matt Sweeney VFX artist who was a member of the Apollo 13 team nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 68th Academy Awards has died aged 75. Other credits include the Fast and Furious franchise, The Goonies and Lethal Weapon 2 He also received 3 Technical Achievement Awards between 1987 and 2002. 59th Academy Awards: For the development of an automatic capsule gun for simulating bullet hits for motion picture special effects (with Lucinda Strub). 70th Academy Awards: For the development and realization of Liquid Synthetic Air (with James F. Foley, Charles Converse and F. Edward Gardner (of UCISCO); and to Robert W. Stoker, Jr.). 74th Academy Awards: For the concept, design and realization of the "Mic Rig" (with Mic Rodgers) 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,091 Posted March 17 (As first noted by Gisooo in the 'People Who Are Dead According To Wikipedia' thread.) David Seidler, who won an Academy Award for his writing, for the movie 'The King's Speech', has died. He was 86. https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-seidler-dead-academy-award-winning-writer-the-kings-speech-was-86-obituary-1235860692/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,091 Posted March 31 Tim McGovern, who received a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects in the 1990 sci-fi classic Total Recall,' has died. He was 68. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/tim-mcgovern-dead-vfx-total-recall-1235956282/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,595 Posted April 3 Director of the war film Battle of Neretva Veljiko Bulajic, that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, died at 96 years: https://www.b92.net/zivot/aktuelno/10627/preminuo-cuveni-jugoslovenski-reditelj/vest 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 10,969 Posted April 3 1 hour ago, TomTomTelekom said: Director of the war film Battle of Neretva Veljiko Bulajic, that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, died at 96 years: https://www.b92.net/zivot/aktuelno/10627/preminuo-cuveni-jugoslovenski-reditelj/vest Also a child soldier of World War II. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
