Avatar: The Way of Water won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects at Sunday’s 95th Academy Awards. One of the recipients of the award, Eric Saindon, appeared on stage to celebrate and then was rushed to the hospital for surgery for a ruptured small intestine.
IndieWire (via NBC News Center Maine) brings us the story. The site reports that Saindon, a senior visual effects supervision at Weta FX, was experiencing intense pain during the day and was checked into the hospital around noon on Sunday. He still attended the awards show with the help of some painkillers from his doctors. Things got worse after Saindon came up to stage to accept the award.
After appearing for press interviews, he left the Academy Awards, and went to the hospital where doctors discovered Saindon had a ruptured small intestine. He went into surgery and is now recovering.