Jun 19 2008, 09:15 PM, updated 18y ago
"Oscar-winning special effects expert Stan Winston, who created the creatures in films including Aliens and Jurassic Park, has died at the age of 62.
Winston, who also made the robots in Terminator, died at home in California surrounded by family on Sunday.
The film veteran had been battling multiple myeloma, a plasma cell cancer, for seven years, a representative of the Stan Winston Studio said.
He had worked with Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Tim Burton.
During his 40-year career, he became a pioneer of merging real-world effects with computer imaging.
California governor and former Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger said: "The entertainment industry has lost a genius, and I lost one of my best friends.
STAN WINSTON'S OSCARS
Stan Winston creating a Jurassic Park dinosaur
Best visual effects: Jurassic Park (1994)
Best visual effects: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993)
Best make-up: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993)
Best visual effects: Aliens (1986)"
Sad day for a movie geek....
Edit: Original title->
Stanley Winston, April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008.
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