Awards & Winners

Fred Knoth

Fred Knoth was an Academy Award winning special effects artist who was the longtime special effects head of Universal Studios. He won a 1955 Academy Award for Technical Achievement with Orien Ernest for "the development of a hand portable, electric, dry oil-fog machine". Knoth was a graduate of the University of Colorado where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Awards by Fred Knoth

Check all the awards nominated and won by Fred Knoth.

1954


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for the development of a hand portable, electric, dry oil-fog machine)