Hats off to the great Ray Harryhausen. Last Saturday, a host of fans gathered to celebrate the stop-motion animator’s 90th birthday at the British Film Institute’s venue on London’s Southbank.

John Landis hosted the tribute to the man who made skeletons squabble in Jason and the Argonauts and dinosaurs rumble in One Million Years BC. Attendees included director Peter Jackson, make-up artists Rick Baker and the compelling pop-culture expert Sir Christopher Frayling.

Landis got a big laugh when, introducing a filmed message from George Lucas, he suggested the director of Star Wars was “too cheap to buy a ticket”. Rick Baker pondered what life would have been like without Harryhausen. “I’d be asking if you wanted fries with that and Peter Jackson would be shearing sheep,” he quipped.