Director Peter Jackson's "King Kong,"a highly touted tale that didn't capture any nominations in the major categories, won three Oscars for visual and sound effects Sunday evening.

Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn have won the sound editing Oscar for "King Kong." Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek were also named best sound mix award for the film.

Earlier, "King Kong" had won the Oscar for visual effects at the 78th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre.

The men who created the latest incarnation of King Kong looked to the film's actors for inspiration in creating the gorilla 's facial expressions, the award-winning visual team said.

"What an actor brings to it is years of training in their craft... in understanding spontaneously how to react to a given situation, " said Joe Letteri said after receiving the visual effect Oscar.

King Kong's emotion was the most important aspect that his creators focused on, co-winner Richard Taylor said.

"Now we can form an emotional relationship,"Taylor said. "It's all relative to the performances of the actors around him."

Visual effects creators also look to the story, not just the technology, in deciding how a character will look and act, Letteri said.

"It's always just driven by the story ... that page gives you the canvas you get," he said. "Until you know what the story is, you don't know what you're going to put on the screen."

Source: Xinhua