Scientific Achievements in Competition for 79th Academy Awards®
Sep 9, 2006 4:58 PM
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 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); New Magic
Entertainment- “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.
