Nafees Bin Zafar, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar, has received another Academy Award for his contribution to the movie industry.
Margot Robbie and Miles Teller presented the award to Nafees at a ceremony held at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Nafees and his colleagues were given the award for their work in the Drop Destruction Toolkit, used to create visual effects in films like 2012.
Two weeks before the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out its Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards to the visual effects, sound and technical wizards whose work behind the camera is a vital but often unheralded part of making movies.
While the Academy Awards on Feb. 22 will present Oscars to actors, directors and others who worked on films released in 2014, the yearly scientific and technical awards honor those who have contributed to the process of film making over a longer period of time, sometimes decades.
"I like to dedicate my award to my father for teaching me to persevere against very difficult problems," Nafees said in his speech at the award distribution ceremony.
He won his Oscar in 2008, for his outstanding work on fluid dynamics, used in films like Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End.
Nafees is currently the director of research and development for DreamWorks in Shanghai, China. His previous filmography includes: Madagascar 3, Kung Fu Panda 2, Shrek Forever After, Flags of Our Fathers.
Nafees Bin Zafar was born in 1977 in Dhaka. His family relocated when he was 11-years-old to Charleston, South Carolina. Nafees studied software engineering at College of Charleston, graduating at 19.
Nafees considers his mother, Nafeesa Zafar, an important artistic influence. She herself comes from a long line of artists, two of whom have received Ekushey Padak awards for their contributions to Bangladesh: his great-grandfather Kobi Golam Mostafa, famed poet of the still-in-print classic tome Bishsho Nobi; and his uncle Syed Mainul Hossain, architect of the national monument Sriti Shoudho.
His uncle Mustafa Monowar is a well-known puppeteer and TV personality.
