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Chris Pine & Zoe Saldana To Host Sci-Tech Awards

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 12:37pm PSTTags: Chris Pine, Sci-Tech, Zoe Saldana

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Actors Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, February 9, at The Beverly Hills Hotel. They will present nine awards to 25 individual recipients during the evening. Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation, produced this year by David Friendly, will be included in the Oscar® telecast. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network.

Related: Nine Sci-Tech Award Winners Unveiled

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Film Academy To Bestow Service Award On VFX Veteran Bill Taylor

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 3:00pm PSTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Oscars, Sci-Tech

Bill Taylor, a longtime visual effects supervisor and director of photography, has been voted to receive the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation from the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The … Read More »

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Nine Sci-Tech Award Winners Unveiled

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 3, 2013 @ 2:50pm PSTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Oscars, Sci-Tech

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that nine scientific and technical achievements represented by 25 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday, February 9, 2013.

Unlike other Academy Awards to be presented this year, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2012. Rather, the achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures.

The Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements are:

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OSCARS: Douglas Trumbull To Receive Gordon E. Sawyer Award

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 12:31pm PSTTags: Douglas Trumbull, Oscars, Sci-Tech

Beverly Hills, CA – The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Douglas Trumbull, a visionary filmmaker who has worked as a designer, director, inventor and entrepreneur, for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the motion picture industry.

The award, an Oscar® statuette, will be presented to Trumbull at the Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Saturday, February 11, at the Beverly Wilshire.

Trumbull has distinguished himself as a visual effects pioneer with major contributions to such films as “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “The Andromeda Strain,” “Silent Running,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek – The Motion Picture,” “Blade Runner” and “Tree of Life.”

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OSCARS: Eight Sci-Tech Awards Announced

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: Academy Awards, Oscars, Sci-Tech

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that eight scientific and technical achievements represented by 28 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at the Beverly Wilshire on Saturday, February 11, 2012.

Unlike other Academy Awards to be presented this year, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2011. Rather, the achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures.

The Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements are:

Technical Achievement Award (Academy Certificate)

To Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt for the invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra software.

This work allowed, for the first time, unified and efficient rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke and clouds, together with other computer graphics objects, in a micro-polygon imaging pipeline.

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