Fantastic Voyage(a.k.a. "Microscopia" and "Strange Journey")
US (1966): Adventure/Sci-Fi
Stephen Boyd heads a team of scientists sent on a bizarre experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet untested process, the scientists and their special motorized vehicle are miniaturized, then injected into the blood stream of a near-death scientist (Jean del Val). Their mission is to relieve a blood clot caused by an assassination attempt. One member of the expedition is bent on sabotage so that the scientist's secrets will die with him. Another member is Raquel Welch, seemingly along for the ride solely because of how she looks in a skintight diving suit. Cast also features Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield and Arthur Kennedy. Richard Fleischer directs for 20th Century-Fox. The film's Oscar®-winning visual effects (by Art Cruikschank) chart the progress of the voyagers through the scientist's body, burrowing past deadly antibodies, chunks of tobacco residue in the lungs, and other such obstacles. Fantastic Voyage was later spun off into a Saturday morning cartoon series. (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)
5 nominations, 2 Awards
· Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color) 1966: Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss - Set Decoration
· Special Visual Effects 1966: Art Cruickshank
· Cinematography (Color) 1966: Ernest Laszlo
· Film Editing 1966: William B. Murphy
· Sound Effects 1966: Walter A. Rossi