Awards & Winners

Farciot Edouart

Date of Birth 05-November-1894
Place of Birth Los Angeles
(Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Alexander Edouart Farciot
Profession Process Photographer
Farciot Edouart ASC was an Academy Award winning motion picture special effects artist and innovator, a recognized specialist and innovator in the area of "process photography", also known as rear projection. In a career beginning in the 1920s, Farciot won a total of ten Academy Awards: two competitive, seven technical and scientific awards, and an honorary award for special effects. He worked on approximately 350 films, the last one being Rosemary's Baby in 1968. Leonard Maltin wrote "The master of process-screen photography is Farciot Edouart." Edouart was born in Los Angeles, the son of a portrait photographer, and began working as a cameraman while still a teenager. Fox Film Corporation was the first to use the rear projection technique, in 1930, with their films Liliom and Just Imagine, and were subsequently awarded a technical Oscar for their work the next year. Edouart, working at Paramount Pictures, refined the technique starting in 1933, and developed several new methods, such as syncing three projectors with the same background plate for more even and bright exposure.

Awards by Farciot Edouart

Check all the awards nominated and won by Farciot Edouart.

1955


Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering award)
(For the engineering and development of a double-frame, triple-head background projector.)
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for an improved dual stereopticon background projector)

1947


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for the first application of a special anti-solarizing glass to high-intensity background and spot arc projectors)

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Unconquered

1944


Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Story of Dr. Wassell

1943


Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering award)
(For the development and practical application to motion picture production of a method of duplicating and enlarging natural color photographs, transferring the image emulsions to glass plates and projecting these slides by especially designed stereopticon equipment.)
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for an automatic electric transparency cueing timer)

Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects So Proudly We Hail!

1942


Nominations 1942 »

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Reap the Wild Wind

1941


Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Honored for : I Wanted Wings

Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Aloma of the South Seas
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects I Wanted Wings

1940


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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Typhoon
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Dr. Cyclops

1939


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill. [Stage Operations])

Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Union Pacific

1938


Academy Honorary Award
Honored for : Spawn of the North
(for outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, Spawn of the North)

1937


Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering award)
(For the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup.)