Bangladeshi artist to receive Oscar again

Nafees Bin Zafar, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar, has been selected once again to receive an Academy Award for his contribution to the movie industry.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that distributes the Academy Award familiarly known as Oscar, issued a letter to the Bangladeshi-American tech wizard on January 8.

According to the letter, Nafees and his colleagues are being given a Technical Achievement Award for their work in the Drop Destruction Toolkit, used to create visual effects in films like 2012. The ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on February 7, 2015.

He won his previous 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 filmography includes: Madagascar 3, Kung Fu Panda 2, Shrek Forever After, Flags of Our Fathers

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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 EkusheyPadak 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