Farciot Edouart

Farciot Edouart, ASC was a film special-effects artist and innovator perhaps best known for his work with process photography, also known as rear projection.
Edouart was born in Northern California. His father was a portrait photographer. He began working as a cameraman while still a teenager at the production company of Hobart Bosworth.
By way of mergers and acquisitions, Edouart became an employee of Paramount Pictures, where he began to specialize on optical effects in the mid-1920s. He worked for Paramount until his department was abruptly closed in 1967. He worked on approximately 350 films, and his final film was Rosemary's Baby. Edouart won a total of ten Academy Awards: two competitive, seven technical and scientific awards and an honorary award for special effects. Leonard Maltin wrote: "The master of process-screen photography is Farciot Edouart."

Academy Awards

In 1939, Edouart shared a special Academy Award for Best Visual Effects "for outstanding achievement in creating special photographic and sound effects" for Spawn of the North.
In 1940, he received a nomination for Union Pacific.
In 1940, he received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement along with Joseph E. Robbins and William Rudolph for "the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill."
In 1941, he received nominations for Dr. Cyclops and Typhoon.
In 1942, he won the award for I Wanted Wings and was nominated for Aloma of the South Seas.
In 1943, Edouart won the award for Reap the Wild Wind.
In 1944, he was nominated for So Proudly We Hail!.
In 1945, he received a nomination for The Story of Dr. Wassell.
In 1948, he received a nomination for Unconquered.