Takuo Miyagishima (Japanese: 宮城島 卓夫, March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2011) was a Japanese-American design engineer who worked for Panavision.
He was attending junior high school in 1941 when World War II began, and was able to avoid the Japanese American internment by moving to Utah to live with relatives.
[1][4] He received the Fuji Gold Medal in 1991 for his single autofocusing anamorphic camera lens.
[4] He also worked on Panavision's Panaflex Motion Picture Camera System and Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens.
[2] In 1999 he also received the American Society of Cinematographers' President's Award, shared with Albert Mayer.