Oscar winner Richie Baneham has been honoured in his home areas of Ballyfermot and Tallaght with two gold post boxes.
Last week, An Post painted the two postboxes gold to celebrate Richie's win at the Oscars for best visual effects for his work on Avatar: The Way of Water. Richie is a veteran animator who has worked on several big-name projects like The Lord of The Rings trilogy, the Chronicles of Narnia films, and more.
He studied Animation in Ballyfermot College of Further Education from 1990 until 1994, and is one of the country’s most successful animators and visual effects supervisors. And now there is a pillar box painted gold outside his former college in Ballyfermot to celebrate Richie's achievements in the film world, and there's also a second gold post box near his family home in Old Bawn in Tallaght.
