‘Jurassic Park’ VFX Artist Phil Tippett Wins Locarno Fest’s Vision Award
Scott Roxborough
Visual effect master Phil Tippett (
Jurassic Park) will be honored at this year’s Locarno Film Festival with the Vision Award Ticinomoda 2021, a prize that recognizes the achievements of creative artists working behind the scenes to “extend the horizons of cinematic iconography.”
Tippett will receive the prize at a ceremony at the Piazza Grande in Locarno on Aug. 5 and will take part in a panel discussion in front of a festival audience on August 6.
Locarno will screen
RoboCop (1987) and
Starship Troopers (1997) — two of Tippett’s stand-out collaborations with director Paul Verhoeven — as well as the world premiere of