Steven Alexander Rutt ( February 26 , 1945 – May 20 , 2011 ) was an American engineer who in 1972 , along with Bill Etra , co-created an early video animation synthesizer , the Rutt/Etra synthesizer . His equipment was used in the early pioneering synthesized animation for the 1976 Academy Award winning movie Network
Academy Award
49th Academy Awards
Steve Rutt