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September 8, 2006
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17 Scientific Achievements in
Competition for 79th Academy Awards®

Beverly Hills, CA — The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 17 scientific and technical achievements have been selected for further awards consideration.

“The list of achievements is made public to allow individuals and companies with similar devices or claims of prior art the opportunity to submit their devices or claims for review as well,” said Scientific and Technical Awards Committee Chair Donald C. Rogers.

The deadline to submit additional entries is Wednesday, September 20.

The committee has selected the following methods or devices for further consideration:

Rosetta Separations – Digital YCM Masters for Digital
Film Preservation; Pacific Title and Art Studio

Archival Separations from Digital Image Data;
Technicolor Digital Intermediates

HFC Brumagic MPST Densitometer; Hollywood Film
Company

SnoBiz®; CITC

Arriflex 235 Camera System; Arri Inc.

Ultra-Solution Digital Registration of Technicolor
3-Strip Motion Pictures; AOL, LLC

Harmony/Opus; Toon Boom Animation, Inc.

Rotoshop - Interpolated-Rotoscoping Software;
Flat Black Films

A Flexible Hair Grooming and Rendering System;
Weta Digital

“Shave and a Haircut”; Joe Alter

Image-Based Modeling; Industrial Light & Magic

Open EXR; Industrial Light & Magic

“Final Draft”; Final Draft, Inc.

Furnace, Motion Estimation Technology;
The Foundry

Industry Conversion to Cyan Analog Dye
Soundtracks; Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

DFS (Digital Foley Station); Ascent Media

“cmotion” Radio Remote Control System;
cmotion GmbH

After thorough investigations are conducted on each of the entries to be considered further, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to the Academy's Board of Governors, which will make the final awards decisions.

The Scientific and Technical Awards will be presented at the Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, February 10, 2007.

For more information, contact Awards Administration Director Rich Miller at 310-247-3000, ext. 129, or by e-mail at scitech@oscars.org.

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