September 13, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:  John Pavlik - (310) 247-3000

Beverly Hills, CA -Twenty-five scientific or technical achievements have been selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards Committee for 74th Academy Awards^® consideration, Committee Chair Richard Edlund announced today.

"We announce these achievements so that claims of prior invention or of similar technology can be reviewed to determine whether they should also be included in our consideration," Edlund said. Deadline for such notification is 5 p.m., Friday, September 28.

The methods or devices selected by the committee for further consideration, and the individuals or companies submitting them, are:

• 35-3/435 Remote Aqua Cam; Hydroflex, Inc.
• 3D Equalizer; Science D-Visions
• ARRI Laser Film Recorder; ARRI/Arnold & Richter Cinetechnik GmbH
• Boujou V-1.0 Automated Camera Tracker; 2d3 Ltd.
• Cel Paint; Pixar Animation
• Depth Buffer Shadow Mapping; Lance J. Williams
• Deva Digital Audio Disk Recorder; Zaxcom
• DMS-120 S Camera Motor; Jackson Woodburn Controls
• ILM: Creature Dynamics System; Industrial Light & Magic
• ILM: MARS (Motion and Structure Recovery System); Industrial Light & Magic
• Imagica USA 65/35 Multiformat Optical Printer; Imagica USA, Inc.
• JBL ScreenArray Cinema Loudspeakers, models 4632 & 3632; JBL Professional
• Kodak Panchromatic Sound Recording Film 2374; Eastman Kodak Company
• Maya(TM); Alias/Wavefront, Inc.
• Mental Ray; Mental Images GmbH
• Neumann Studio Condenser Microphones; Georg Neumann GmbH
• NUKE - 2D Compositing; Digital Domain
• PDI/DreamWorks Facial Animation System; PDI/DreamWorks
• Primo Macro Zoom Lens (PMZ); Panavision, Inc.
• QSR 24/30 Film Reader; Q Sync, Inc.
• RCI-Color Film Restoration Process; VCE, Inc.
• Schneider VP-Cinelux Variable Prime Projection Lenses; Schneider Optics, Inc.
• Super 16 Format (Kodak); Kodak Nordic AB
• The Bulldog Motion Control Camera Crane; Imageg
• The Mic Rig; Matt Sweeney Special Effects

Demonstration of selected achievements will be conducted on Tuesday, October 23, in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Awards Administration Director Richard Miller said the committee will meet on December 5 to vote award recommendations to the Academy's Board of Governors, which will make the final decisions. The Scientific and Technical Awards will be presented at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Saturday, March 2, 2002.

For more information call the Academy at 310-247-3000 ext. 129; fax 310-859-9619; or email scitech@oscars.org.