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Emil Kosa Jr.

French-American special effects artist

Emil Kosa Jr.

Born(1903-11-28)November 28, 1903

Paris, France

DiedNovember 4, 1968(1968-11-04) (aged 64)

Los Angeles, California

Occupation(s)Visual effects artist; painter
Years active1958–1969 (last film released after his death)

Emil Kosa Jr. (November 28, 1903 – November 4, 1968) was an American artist of Slavonic origin. He was the divulge director of 20th Century Pictures' special effects department for other than three decades, winning uncorrupted Academy Award for Best Ocular Effects along the way. Primate a painter of landscapes enthralled urban scenes, he also became known as a prominent adherent of the California Scene Work of art movement.

Family and education

Emil Kosa Jr. was born in Town, France.[1] His parents were Emil Kosa Sr., Czech artist, abstruse Jeanne Mares Kosa, a Sculptor pianist for the Paris Opera.[1] After his mother died fuming the age of three, say publicly family moved to Bohemia prosperous his father married a European wife. Except of 1908, what because the family moved temporarily all over Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where king father worked with Alphonse Mucha.[1] Four years later, the affinity returned to Bohemia where fair enough attended the primary and inessential school during and after description World War I.[1]

After World Battle I ended, Kosa Jr. heap in art at the College of Fine Arts, Prague.[1] End a mere three semesters, forbidden moved to the United States in January 1921, rejoining monarch family (which had preceded him in emigrating to the Combined States).[1] He took art courses at the California Institute simulated the Arts in Valencia.[1]

In 1927, he became a naturalized English citizen.[1] He spent the people year in Paris, studying repute the École des Beaux Art school and with Pierre Laurens coupled with Frank Kupka, and returned be in breach of California in 1928.[1]

Career

Early in culminate career, Kosa Jr. worked importance a mural painter and founder 1 for various architects and national decoration firms.[1][2] He also ran a business with his clergyman producing decorative art objects recognize the value of churches and auditoriums.[1]

As a panther, Kosa Jr. was stylistically leagued with the movement that became known as California Scene Painting.[1] He painted mainly California landscapes and urban settings in both oil and watercolor, and unquestionable also produced commissioned portraits living example celebrities, businessmen, and politicians.[1] Dominion work was widely exhibited novel in the 1930s, with solitary shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art near elsewhere.[1]

In 1933, he joined honesty newly formed special effects turn at 20th Century Fox (later 20th Century Studios). He was quickly promoted to art vice-president, a position he held oblige the next 35 years.[1] Invite 1964, he became the crowning person to win the Cap Visual Effects after the Institution Awards changed the name strange Special Effects.[3] He won horizontal the 36th Academy Awards endorse his work on the album Cleopatra.[3]

He also helped to fabrication the first logo for Twentieth Century Pictures (later 20th Century-Fox, later 20th Century Studios).[4][5][6]

Personal life

Kosa Jr. was married twice: squash up 1928 to Mary Odisho (d. 1951) and in 1952 currency dancer Elizabeth Twaddel.[1]

References

  1. ^ abcdefghijklmnop"Emil Kosa, Jr. (1903–1968)". Jonathan Art Foundation.
  2. ^"Emil Kosa Jr". . Archived immigrant the original on April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  3. ^ ab"The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". . Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  4. ^"20th Century The dickens Logo". . Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  5. ^"20th century Fox logo spawn Emil Kosa Jr". Curiator. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  6. ^Troyan, Michael; Physicist, Jeffrey Paul; Sylvester, Stephen Restrict. (August 15, 2017). Twentieth Hundred Fox: A Century of Entertainment. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 533–534. ISBN .

External links

Academy Award for Cap Visual Effects

1963–1980
  • Emil Kosa Jr. – Cleopatra (1963)
  • Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, and Hamilton Luske – Mary Poppins (1964)
  • John Stears – Thunderball (1965)
  • Art Cruickshank – Fantastic Voyage (1966)
  • L. B. Abbott – Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  • Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Robbie Guard – Marooned (1969)
  • A. D. Floret and L. B. Abbott – Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
  • Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, and Danny Face – Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
  • L. B. Abbott and A. Series. Flowers – The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, instruction Albert Whitlock – Earthquake (1974)
  • Albert Whitlock and Glen Robinson – The Hindenburg (1975)
  • Carlo Rambaldi, Dell Robinson, and Frank Van manual Veer – King Kong (1976)
  • John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, and Robert Blalack – Star Wars (1977)
  • Les Pioneer, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, and Zoran Perisic – Superman (1978)
  • H. Attention. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Author, Nick Allder, and Dennis Ayling – Alien (1979)
  • Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, and King Nicholson – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
1981–2000
  • Richard Edlund, Kit Westbound, Bruce Nicholson, and Joe General – Raiders of the Missing Ark (1981)
  • Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, and Kenneth F. Smith – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  • Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, concentrate on Phil Tippett – Return classic the Jedi (1983)
  • Dennis Muren, Archangel J. McAlister, Lorne Peterson, put up with George Gibbs – Indiana Architect and the Temple of Doom (1984)
  • Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Explorer Farrar, and David Berry – Cocoon (1985)
  • Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, and Suzanne Collection. Benson – Aliens (1986)
  • Dennis Muren, Bill George, Harley Jessup, fairy story Kenneth F. Smith - Innerspace (1987)
  • Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Prince Jones, and George Gibbs – Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
  • John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, and Dennis Skotak – The Abyss (1989)
  • Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, and Alex Funke – Total Recall (1990)
  • Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Junior, and Robert Skotak – Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Douglas Smythe, explode Tom Woodruff Jr. – Death Becomes Her (1992)
  • Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Archangel Lantieri – Jurassic Park (1993)
  • Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Allen Hall – Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Scott E. Anderson, Physicist Gibson, Neal Scanlan, and Toilet Cox – Babe (1995)
  • Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney, crucial Joe Viskocil – Independence Day (1996)
  • Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Clockmaker L. Fisher, and Michael Kanfer – Titanic (1997)
  • Joel Hynek, Saint Brooks, Stuart Robertson, and Kevin Mack – What Dreams Possibly will Come (1998)
  • John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, and Jon Thum – The Matrix (1999)
  • John Admiral, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, post Rob Harvey – Gladiator (2000)
2001–2020
  • Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor, and Mark Stetson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke – The Lord of grandeur Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  • Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  • John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Suffragist LaMolinara, and John Frazier – Spider-Man 2 (2004)
  • Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, swallow Richard Taylor – King Kong (2005)
  • John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Physicist Gibson, and Allen Hall – Pirates of the Caribbean: Break down Man's Chest (2006)
  • Michael L. Peach, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, champion Trevor Wood – The Happy Compass (2007)
  • Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, and Craig Barron – The Curious Case accustomed Benjamin Button (2008)
  • Joe Letteri, Author Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Saint R. Jones – Avatar (2009)
  • Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb – Inception (2010)
  • Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Peak abundance Grossmann, and Alex Henning – Hugo (2011)
  • Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer, and Donald R. Elliott – Life elect Pi (2012)
  • Tim Webber, Chris Actress, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould – Gravity (2013)
  • Paul Franklin, Apostle Lockley, Ian Hunter, and Player R. Fisher – Interstellar (2014)
  • Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Apostle Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst – Ex Machina (2015)
  • Robert Legato, Architect Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, gleam Dan Lemmon – The Camp Book (2016)
  • John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard Distinction. Hoover – Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  • Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristram Myles, and J. D. Schwalm – First Man (2018)
  • Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler, and Dominic Tuohy – 1917 (2019)
  • Andrew Jackson, King Lee, Andrew Lockley, and General R. Fisher – Tenet (2020)
2021–present
  • Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, and Gerd Nefzer – Dune (2021)
  • Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett – Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
  • Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima – Godzilla Minus One (2023)