Academy
Award of Merit
(Oscar Statuette)
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To Digidesign for the design, development
and implementation of the Pro Tools® digital audio
workstation.
The efficient algorithms, extensible architecture
and intuitive interface have enabled Pro Tools® to
become the worldwide standard for the creation and editing
of motion picture soundtracks.
To Bill Tondreau of Kuper Controls
for his significant advancements in the field of motion
control technology for motion picture visual effects.
Measuring his valuable contributions to the invention
and implementation of robotic camera systems in decades
rather than years, his efforts have aided motion control
in becoming a core technology that has supported the renaissance
of visual effects.
Scientific
and Engineering Awards
(Academy Plaques)
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To Kinoton GmbH for the engineering
and development of the
Kinoton FP 30/38 EC II Studio Projector.
This high-speed studio projector produces an image
quality equal to projectors with Geneva movements. With
its unparalleled shuttle speed, reversibility and acceleration
this projector has set a new standard for post-production
viewing as well as in traditional screening facilities.
To Kenneth L. Tingler, Charles
C. Anderson, Diane E. Kestner,
and Brian A. Schell of the Eastman Kodak
Company, for the successful development of a process-surviving
antistatic layer technology for motion picture film.
This technology successfully controls the static
charge buildup on processed intermediate and sound negative
films during high-speed printing operations.
To Christopher Alfred, Andrew J. Cannon,
Michael C. Carlos, Mark Crabtree, Chuck
Grindstaff, and John Melanson for their significant
contributions to the evolution of digital audio editing
for motion picture post production.
Through their respective pioneering efforts with
AMS AudioFile, Waveframe and Fairlight, their work contributed
significantly to the development and realization of digital
audio workstations with full editing capabilities for
motion picture soundtracks.
To Stephen Regelous for the design and development
of Massive, the autonomous agent animation system
used for the battle sequences in "The Lord of the
Rings" trilogy.
Massive takes a new approach in simulating behaviors
of large numbers of computer generated extras (a.k.a.)
"agents." Each "agent" contains a
primitive software "brain" used to develop behavioral
rules simulating a wide range of behaviors. In "The
Lord of the Rings" trilogy,over 200,000 agents were
controlled in several scenes.
To Kish Sadhvani for the concept and
optical design, Paul Duclos for the practical
realization and production engineering and Carl
Pernicone for the mechanical design and engineering
of the portable cine viewfinder system known as the Ultimate
Director's Finder (UDF).
This versatile, modular and widely accepted cine
viewfinder system is capable of properly displaying images
in multiple formats ranging from 35mm anamorphic to super
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To Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen
R. Marschner and Pat Hanrahan
for their pioneering research in simulating subsurface
scattering of light in translucent materials as presented
in their paper "A Practical Model for Subsurface
Light Transport."
This mathematical model contributed substantially
to the development and implementation of practical techniques
for simulating subsurface scattering of light in translucent
materials for computer-generated images in motion pictures.
To Christophe Hery, Ken McGaugh
and Joe Letteri for their groundbreaking
implementations of practical methods for rendering skin
and other translucent materials using subsurface scattering
techniques.
These groundbreaking techniques were used to create
realistic-looking skin on digitally created characters.
