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Feeney calls the Sawyer Award “a spectacular honor.” He goes on to note, “The Sci-Tech Awards process tends to use the filter of time to see what the really the important advancements in film technology have been, so they are usually recognizing work that happened awhile back. But the number of ASC Technology Committee members honored this year certainly demonstrates the importance of the work that group is doing today.”
SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS(Academy Plaques)
These are presented for achievements that have had a demonstrable influence on the advancement of the industry. The award is a bronze tablet that bears a description of the achievement and the names of the contributors. Plaques were presented to: Phillip J. Feiner, Jim Houston, Denis Leconte and Chris Bushman of Pacific Title & Art Studio for the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM archival masters. With elements that may be recombined either digitally or optically, the Rosetta separations process offers great versatility. Steve Sullivan, Colin Davidson, Max Chen and Francesco Callari for the design and development of the ILM image-based modeling system. This system facilitates interactive construction and editing of 3-D models from digital photographs and addresses 3-D scanning needs in unique and innovative ways. Dr. Bill Collis, Simon Robinson, Ben Kent and Dr. Anil Kokaram for the design and development of the Furnace integrated suite of software tools, which utilizes temporal coherence for enhancing visual effects in motion-picture sequences. The Furnace toolset’s modularity, flexibility and robustness has set a high standard for optical-flow-based image manipulation. Howard Preston and Mirko Kovacevic for the design and engineering of the Preston Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system. Offering unprecedented reliability and flexibility in wireless lens and camera operation, the FI+Z has led the field since its introduction in 1994.
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (Academy Certificates)
These are presented for accomplishments that contribute to the progress of the industry. A certificate describes the achievement and lists all of the individuals who contributed to its development. This year’s awards went to: Joshua Pines and Chris Kutcka of Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI) for the design and development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data. The TDI process is based on the production of digital separation negatives, creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future. William Feightner and Chris Edwards of EFilm for the design and development of EFilm’s process for creating archival separations from digital image data. This process is based on the production of digital separation negatives, creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future. Albert Ridilla, Papken Shahbazian, Ronald Belknap and Jay McGarrigle for the design and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer. The device was designed to measure density in the motion-picture soundtrack and has become the densitometer of choice for reading soundtrack negative and positive densities worldwide. Klemens Kehrer, Josef Handler, Thomas Smidek and Marc Shipman Mueller for the design and development of the Arri 235 camera system. Designed for handheld photography, this small, lightweight MOS camera an also be used as a secondary production camera. Florian Kainz for the design and development of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit floating-point high-dynamic-range image files. OpenEXR was engineered to meet the requirements of the visual-effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images. Walter Trauninger and Ernst Tschida for the design and engineering of the Arri WRC wireless remote lens-control system. This highly modular system permits accurate and reliable wireless control with multiple hand controls of all lens functions. Christian Tschida and Martin Waitz of Cmotion for the design and engineering of the Cmotion Wireless Remote System. The graphical user interface of the system simplifies the difficult task of following focus, and the unique lens tag system recalls the calibration for each lens. Peter Litwinowicz and Pierre Jasmin for the design and development of the RE: Vision Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation. A unique user interface and relatively low cost have made these tools ubiquitous in the visual-effects community.
Award of Commendation(Special Award)
This was presented to Ioan Allen, J. Wayne Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, Ted Costas, Paul R. Goldberg, Shawn Jones, Thomas Kuhn, Dr. Alan Masson, Colin Mossman, Martin Richards, Frank Ricotta and Richard C. Sehlin for their contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan-dye-analog soundtracks.
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