page_title: John Stears
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: John Stears / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: John Stears working on remote controlled R2D2 Unit
context_page_description: John Stears, known as the "Dean of Special Effects", was a British two-time Academy Award-winning special effects expert. He created James Bond's lethal Aston Martin DB5, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, the Jedi Knights' lightsabers and the endearing robots R2-D2 and C-3PO, as well as a host of other famous movie gadgets and special effects.
context_section_description: John Stears is notably one of only a few people to ever win an Academy Award for a James Bond film and one of only eight to win an Academy Award for a Star Wars film.
  1965 - Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Thunderball
  1977 - Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  1978 - Saturn Award for Best Special Effects for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  1982 - Saturn Award for Best Special Effects (nomination) for Outland
caption: John Stears with his two Academy Awards and Saturn Award
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