September 9, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dawn Newell — (310) 247-3000
dnewell@oscars.org
17 Scientific Achievements in Competition for 77th Academy
Awards®
Beverly Hills, CA — Seventeen
scientific and technical achievements have been selected for review by
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and
Technical Awards Committee for 77th Academy Awards consideration, Committee
Chair Richard Edlund announced today.
“The reason the committee announces this list of achievements
is to give people or companies with a similar technology or claims of
prior art the opportunity to contact the Academy and submit their technology
for review," said Edlund. "The Sci-Tech Committee can then
determine if these entries warrant consideration as well."
The deadline for additional entries to be submitted to the Academy is
5 p.m., Thursday, September 23.
The methods or devices selected by the committee and the individuals
or companies submitting them are:
Hot Gears Remote Systems; Salamati Productions, Inc.
FX Motion E-Gearing System; FX Motion
Silicone Appliances—Special Makeup; Greg Cannom
Truematch Compact Fluorescent Lamp Series KF 29, KF 32, KF 55; Kino Flo, Inc.
Satellight-X (HMI Softlight); Satellite-X, Inc.
Kodak Vision2 500T Color Negative Film 5218; Eastman Kodak Company
Perfect Horizon; Motion Picture Marine
Sparrow Head; Doggicam Systems
Telescopic Cameracrane; Technocrane
Vicon 8 Motion Capture System with MCAMS; Vicon Motion Systems
Adobe After Effects Software; Adobe Systems, Inc.
Apple Shake; Apple Computer
High Resolution 3D Laser Scanner; National Research Council of Canada
Polhemus Fastscan (Handheld 3D Laser Scanner); Applied Research Associates
NZ Ltd.
Shapeware; Eyetronics
Storm (Software for Creating Volumetric Effects); Digital Domain
Cedar DNS 1000; Cedar Audio, Ltd.
A demonstration of selected achievements will be conducted on Tuesday,
October 19, in the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford
Center for Motion Picture Study. Awards Administration Director Richard
Miller said the committee will meet on December 1 to vote on recommendations
to the Academy’s Board of Governors, who will make the final decisions.
The Scientific and Technical Awards will be presented at the Regent Beverly
Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, February 12, 2005.
For more information contact Miller's office at the Academy via phone
at 310-247-3000, ext. 129; by fax at 310-859-9619 or by e-mail to scitech@oscars.org.
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