Gordon Jennings

He received seven Academy Awards (mainly for Best Special Effects) and was nominated for eight more in the same category.

After starting 1919 in Hollywood as camera assistant he worked from 1932 until 1953 on the visual and special effects of more than 180 films.

His older brother was cinematographer Devereaux Jennings (1884-1952), who filmed, for instance, Buster Keaton's monumental The General in 1926.

In 1942, he beat himself winning the Academy Award for his work in 1941 on I Wanted Wings with Farciot Edouart against his second nomination for Aloma of the South Seas with Louis Mesenkop.

His last receipt of an Academy Award was posthumous, when The War of the Worlds was decorated during the 1954 ceremony.