R2-D2 was designed by John Stears and Tony Dyson specially created by Australian firm Petric Engineering and English firm C & L Developments.

Mostly created for Star Wars by Special Effects worker John Stears, the term is a clipped form of android.

The Aston Martin DB5 is one of the most famous cars in the world thanks to Oscar-winning special effects expert ( also known as ' the Real Q ') John Stears, who created the deadly silver-birch DB5 for use by James Bond in Goldfinger ( 1964 ).

John Stears ( August 25, 1934-June 28, 1999 ) known as ' the Dean of Special Effects ' and ' The Real Q ' was an Academy Award winning special effects expert, who created James Bond's lethal Aston Martin DB5, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, the Jedi Knights ' lightsabers, the endearing robots R2-D2 and C-3PO as well as a host of other movie gadgets and special effects.

John Stears created some of the most famous scenes in the movies.

* Obituary, John Stears: Independent, Monday, 19 July 1999

* Obituary, John Stears: New York Times, Sunday, July 4, 1999

* Obituary, John Stears: Los Angeles Times, Monday, July 5, 1999

* John Stears: images of constructing and testing R2D2

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Two of them — Luke Skywalker's ( Mark Hamill ) X-34 and a V-35 — were designed by special effects genius John Stears and were fitted around cars ; Skywalker's landspeeder was built around a small sports car manufactured by Ogle Design .< ref name =" insider ">

To pull off the film's special effects, the producers hired John Stears, who had worked on the first eight James Bond films and shared a special effects Academy Award for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Sheila Benson wrote in her review for the Los Angeles Times, " Where F / X floats above the crowd are in its performances ; in the perfection of Miroslav Ondricek's photography, Mel Bourne's production design, John Stears ' effects and Terry Rawlings ' crisp, succinct editing ; in the virtually unpredictable twists and turns of its plot, and in the sheer joy of watching a hero use his skill and his wits to solve a problem ".

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

* John Dobson ( 1915 ), whose name is associated with the Dobsonian telescope, a simplified design for Newtonian reflecting telescopes.

An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy ( 1808 ), one of the earliest scientific works on atomic theory

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Arius and his followers appealed to Bible verses such as Jesus saying that the father is " greater than I " ( John ), and " The Lord created me at the beginning of his work " ( Proverbs ).

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

The Journal of a Slave Trader ( John Newton ), The Epworth Press, London.

Among subsequent possessors were Scott's son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, J. R. Hope Scott, Q. C., and his daughter ( Scott's great-granddaughter ), the Hon.

Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2 and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and the first installment of George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy were released this year.

Other elements, like John Mills ' caricature of ' the village idiot ' ( an Oscar-winning performance ) have withstood the test of time less well.

He performed the solo part on John Corigliano's Oscar-winning soundtrack for the film The Red Violin and was also featured in Ladies in Lavender.

" In a statement, Natalie Portman, an Oscar-winning American actress who is Jewish and whose great-grandparents died in Auschwitz expressed " disgust " at John Galliano's comments.

At the end of March 2008, he began working with Oscar-winning director Jane Campion on her film Bright Star, a love story with Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish portraying John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne.

Headford appeared in the Oscar-winning film " The Quiet Man " starring John Wayne.

Cong was the filming location for John Ford's 1952 Oscar-winning film, The Quiet Man, featuring John Wayne, Maureen O ' Hara and Barry Fitzgerald.

On film, her roles have included: Sheila McVicar ( to Roger Daltrey's John McVicar ) in 1980's McVicar ; Jennie Liddell in 1981's Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire ; Lady Aline Hartlip in 1984's The Shooting Party ( with Dorothy Tutin, James Mason and John Gielgud ); and Lady Alice Clayton ( Tarzan's mother ) in 1984's Greystoke-The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.

The video footage was directed by Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Dykstra.

" The event was co-founded by Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning film director, well known for his anti-establishment films and documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9 / 11, Bowling for Columbine, and Roger & Me, along with author Doug Stanton and photographer John Robert Williams.

Griffiths ' reputation at the time was such that Warren Beatty asked him to write a screenplay for project about the US revolutionary John Reed, which eventually became the Oscar-winning film Reds ( 1981 ).

* In John Hubley's 1959 Oscar-winning animated short Moonbird two little boys try to set a trap for a bird, in the middle of the night.

Jon ( John ) Anketell Brewer Swain is an award-winning British journalist and writer who was portrayed by Julian Sands in the 1984 Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.

Other area landmarks include historic Los Angeles High School, alma mater of composer John Cage, author Ray Bradbury, actor Dustin Hoffman, writer / poet Charles Bukowski, singer Mel Tormé, Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg, attorney Johnnie Cochran, and Charles Francis Richter, who invented the Richter Scale.

The festival first presented in August 2002, with Oscar-winning visual effects specialist John Cox as one of the co-founders.