The Visual Effects Society will honor movie-making legend Ray Harryhausen with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented at the 9th annual VES Awards ceremony Jan. 28.
The group, which represents visual effects professionals, is bestowing the honor on Harryhausen for his ‘vision and dedication to the craft of storytelling while being at the creative forefront of ground-breaking effects.’
The 90-year-old Harryhausen is regarded by many professionals as the godfather of visual effects for his ground-breaking work on Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Mysterious Island and the original Clash of the Titans.
‘To join the ranks of other recipients of this award is gratifying as I enter my 90th year,’ says Harryhausen. ‘I was an artist and technician who worked usually on my own in small dark rooms in some obscure corner of a studio trying to create original and realistic creatures to inhabit my fantasy worlds and now my work is not only being recognized as unique but also it has become a beacon for other fantasy filmmakers.’
The 2011 VES Awards will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, Calif.
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