Featured Speaker: 2020 Speaker Douglas Trumbull – “The Past, Present, and Future of Cinema”

In this video, filmmaker Douglas Trumbull shares a history of cinema technology and a retrospective of his Academy Award-winning career exclusively for the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers community. The name Douglas Trumbull has become synonymous with words like “visionary filmmaker” and “mastermind of visual effects.” His breakthrough work on Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” permanently revolutionized what visual effects could achieve in movies, and his subsequent work on “The Andromeda Strain,” “Close Encounters of The Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” and “Blade Runner” seared Trumbull’s vision into humanity’s collective imagination. He has been awarded more than twenty-five patents, including one for the first entertainment simulator ride (“Back to The Future – The Ride” at Universal Studios) and another for the Academy Award-winning Showscan® process for high speed cinematography. Trumbull helped launch IMAX into the commercial feature film marketplace; and was recently awarded the coveted Gordon E. Sawyer Academy Award for his contributions to cinema technology.

In the Q&A video, Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers, Ed Kramer, sits down with legendary filmmaker Douglas Trumbull in a live Q&A to discuss the history and future of cinema technology, a retrospective of his Academy Award-winning career, and more. Exclusive for the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers community.