The son of optical effects director William Butler, Lawrence W. Butler started his career working with his father in the United States. In the mid-'30s, however, he went over to England and into the employ of Hungarian-born producer/director Alexander Korda at the latter's London Films, starting with the studio's gargantuan production of Things to Come (1936) at the newly ...more
- 1945
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Special Effects
- A Thousand and One Nights
- nom
- 1942
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Special Effects
- The Jungle Book
- nom
- 1941
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Special Effects
- That Hamilton Woman
- nom
- 1940
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Special Effects
- The Thief of Bagdad
- win
- 2049
- We Were Strangers
- Special Effects
- 2048
- To the Ends of the Earth
- Special Effects
- 2048
- The Lady from Shanghai
- Special Effects
- 2045
- Saratoga Trunk
- Special Effects
- 2045
- The Horn Blows at Midnight
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