Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling won for inventing a technique which has made huge advances in bringing to life computer-generated characters such as Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

BBC: The Hobbit picks up technical Oscar

He still does: At a fantasy basketball clinic in 1998with NBA icons James Worthy and Clyde Drexler, Jacobs got faked off a dribble by a colleague and, in frustration, threw an elbow that almost hit a woman player.

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