A visual effects supervisor and director, who worked on some of the greatest science fiction films ever made. He is perhaps best known for creating the groundbreaking ‘stargate’ sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but he also worked on, among others, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Blade Runner (1982), all of which earned him Oscar nominations, the latter adding a BAFTA nomination, too. While best known for his innovative VFX work, Trumbull also directed two well-regarded feature films, Silent Running (1972) and Brainstorm (1983), as well as several shorts. He won two technical Oscars: in 1993, the Scientific and Engineering Award (shared with Robert Auguste) for jointly creating the CP-65 Showscan Camera System; and in 2012, the Gordon E Sawyer Award, which honours individuals who have made extraordinary and lasting technological contributions to the film industry.
Read Douglas Trumbull's Guardian obituary
Read Douglas Trumbull's Telegraph obituary
