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MillimeterSeventeen Scientific Achievements in Competition for 78th Academy Awards
Sep 9, 2005 11:30 AM
The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 17 scientific and technical achievements have been selected for 78th Academy Awards consideration.
"This list of achievements is announced to allow individuals and companies with similar technology or claims of prior art the opportunity to submit their technology for review," says Scientific and Technical Awards Committee Chair Richard Edlund.
The deadline to submit additional entries is Thursday, Sept. 22.
The committee has selected the following methods or devices for consideration:
- Sparrow Head; Doggicam Systems
- High Speed Pneumatic Accelerator; Jeff Haberstad
- Precision Stunt Airbag; Precision Stunt Safety Specialists
- Telescoping Scissor Camera Crane; Filmotechnic
- Gyrostabilized Autorobot/Russian Arm Camera Crane; Filmotechnic
- Traveling Cascade Camera Crane; Filmotechnic
- Cablecam's Multi-Axis Systems; Cablecam International
- Syflex-The Cloth Simulator; Syflex
- Cloth Simulation for Film; Pixar Animation Studios
- ILM: Image-Based Modeling; Industrial Light & Magic
- Ambient Environment Lighting; Industrial Light & Magic
- Subdivision Surfaces in Motion Picture Production; Pixar Animation Studios
- Rosetta Separations-Digital YCM Masters for Digital Film Preservation; Pacific Title and Art Studio
- Realtime Answer Print System; Technicolor
- HFC Brumagic MPST Densitometer; Hollywood Film Company
- Cinelux Premiere Cinema Projection Lenses; Schneider Optics
- Aerohead Remote Camera Head and J-Viz Previsualization System; Aerohead
A demonstration of selected achievements will be conducted on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study.
According to Awards Administration Director Rich Miller, the committee will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 7, to vote on recommendations to the Academy's Board of Governors, which will make final awards decisions.
The Scientific and Technical Awards will be presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006.
For more information, please contact Miller's office at (310) 247-3000 ext. 129; by fax at (310) 859-9619; or by email at scitech@oscars.org
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