The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards Committee will review 17 scientific and technical achievements for 78th Academy Awards consideration, according to committee chair Richard Edlund, but its not too late to submit entries. Pixar Animation Studios and Industrial Light & Magic are being considered for two achievements each.
"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," said Richard Edlund.
The deadline for additional entries to be submitted to the Academy is 5:00 pm, Sept. 22, 2005.
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* Cablecams Multi-Axis Systems; Cablecam International, Inc.* Syflex The Cloth Simulator; Syflex, Llc.* 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 Co.* Cinelux Premiere Cinema Projection Lenses; Schneider Optics Inc.* Aerohead Remote Camera Head and J-Viz Pre-Visualization System; Aerohead Llc.
A demonstration of selected achievements will be conducted on October 18, at 7:30 pm in the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study. The committee will then meet on December 7 to vote on recommendations to the Academys Board of Governors, who will make the final awards decisions.
The Scientific and Technical Awards will be presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006.
For more information contact awards administration director Richard Miller's office at the Academy via phone at 310-247-3000, ext. 129; by fax at 310-859-9619 or by e-mail to scitech@oscars.org.
