The 1949 film about this big ape won a special effects Oscar (remember--we said 1949)
... Hamlisch also won Best Song that year for The 
Way We Were (song), making him the only composer to win ..... 1949, Original 
Score: [DOC] [TLE] Cataloguing Monster Maker Rick Baker's History With the Walt ... [PAR] May 29, 2015 ... Monster maker and special effects wizard Rick Baker announced that ... in 
London (a movie that he won the first-ever Makeup Oscar for), David ... We'd be 
lying if we said that we weren't thinking about bidding on the ... another giant 
monster remake, this time of the 1949 giant ape movie Mighty Joe Young.