Oscar winner who created zombies and minotaurs to be honored in SLO

Special effects makeup artist Howard Berger will be honored at next year’s San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival.

Berger, whose screen credits include “Breaking Bad,” “Hitchcock” and three “The Chronicles of Narnia” movies, will receive the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Jan. 14 at the Palm Theatre in San Luis Obispo. The event will include a question-and-answer session and a screening of “Inglourious Basterds.”

The Lifetime Achievement Award honors members of the movie industry whose “contributions ... have made a difference in the pursuit of filmmaking excellence,” Lauren Bandari, executive director of JCC-Federation of San Luis Obispo, wrote in a news release.

Berger is the co-founder of KNB EFX Group, which has worked with filmmakers including Michael Bay, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi and Quentin Tarantino.

Berger won an Oscar for his work on the 2005 fantasy movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” and received a Primetime Emmy Award in 2011 as part of the team behind AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

The seventh annual San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival runs Jan 14-16 in San Luis Obispo. For more information, visit www.jccslo.com.

This story was originally published November 9, 2016 at 12:46 PM with the headline "Oscar winner who created zombies and minotaurs to be honored in SLO."