Special effects master and threetime Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi died Friday in southern Italy after a long illness, Italian news media reported. He was 86.
Rambaldi was known as the father of E.T. He won visual effects Oscars for Steven Spielberg's 1982 extraterrestrial hit, as well as Ridley Scott's film Alien in 1979 and John Guillermin's King Kong in 1976.
