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The first Fuji Gold Medal Award was presented to Richard Edlund, ASC, at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers annual Honors and Awards luncheon on October 21. The presentation was made at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
The medal honors "the design and development of new or enhanced techniques or equipment that have contributed significantly to the advance of photographic or electronic image origination," according to SMPTE president Maurice L. French. Edlund, a long-time director of special effects, heads Boss Film Effects, producers of visual effects for such pictures as Ghostbusters, 2010, Poltergeist, Fright Night, Poltergeist II, Date With an Angel, and Die Hard. Earlier, at Industrial Light and Magic, he was a prominent member of the team responsible for the effects in Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and others.
Edlund has been awarded four Oscars...