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| | Awarded to: | | | - John A. Bonner
- In appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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| 4 March |
| Jamie Lee Curtis |
| Ballroom, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| | Winners: | | | - Eastman Kodak Co.
- For the development of EXR Color Intermediate Film 5244.
- Petro Vlahos; Paul Vlahos
- For the conception and development of the Ultimatte blue screen compositing process for motion pictures.
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| | Winners: | | | - Paul Bamborough; Nick Pollack (II); Arthur Wright (V); Neil Harris (VI); Duncan MacLean (II)
- For the concept (Bamborough), the hardware development (Pollack/Wright) and the software development (Harris/MacLean) of the digital Lightworks Editor for motion editing.
- Gary Demos (Information Int'l.); Dan Cameron (II) (Information Int'l.); David DiFrancesco (Pixar); Gary Starkweather (Pixar); Scott Squires (ILM)
- For their pioneering work in the field of film input scanning.
- Ray Feeney (RFX Inc.); Will McCown (RFX Inc.); Bill Bishop (I) (RFX Inc.); Les Dittert (Pacific Data Images)
- For their development work with area array CCD (Charge Coupled Device) film input scanning systems.
- Lincoln Hu (ILM); Mike MacKenzie (I) (ILM); Glenn Kennel (Eastman Kodak); Mike Davis (III) (Eastman Kodak)
- For joint development work on a linear array CCD (Charge Coupled Device) film input scanning system.
- James Ketcham (JSK Engineering)
- For the concept and design of the MC211 microprocessor-based motion controller for synchronizing sprocketed film with time-code based machines.
- Iain Neil; Albert K. Saiki
- For the optical design (Neil) and for the mechanical design (Saiki) of the Panavision 11:1 Primo Zoom lens for motion picture photography.
- George Sauve; Bill Bishop (I); Arpag Dadourian; Ray Feeney; Richard Patterson (II)
- For the Cinefusion software implementation of the Ultimatte Blue Screen compositing technology.
- William A. Warner; Technical staff of Avid Technology
- For the concept (Warner) and the development (Avid) of the Avid Film Composer for motion picture editing.
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| | Winners: | | | - Audio Tracks Inc.
- For the design and development of the ADE (Advanced Data Encoding) system, which creates an encoded timecode track and database during the initial transfer of the production sound "dailies."
- David A. Addleman; Lloyd A. Addleman
- For the development of Cyberware 3030 3D Digitizer.
- Mike Boudry (Computer Film Company)
- For his pioneering work in the field of film input scanning.
- Colin Broad (CB Electronics)
- For the design and development of the EDL (Edit Decision List) Lister, which creates an encoded timecode track and database during the transfer of the production sound "dailies."
- Clay Davis (Todd AO); John Carter (XX) (Todd AO)
- For the pioneering effort of computer-controlled list management style ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement).
- Art Fritzen (California Fritzen Propeller Company)
- As designer and sole manufacturer of the Eight-Bladed Ritter Fan Propellers.
- Stephen Greenfield (Screenplay Systems); Chris Huntley (II) (Screenplay Systems)
- For development of the "Scriptor" software.
- B. Russell Hessey (Special Effects Spectacular Inc.); Vincent T. Kelton; George Jackman (De La Mare Engineering Inc.)
- For the hardware design (Hessey/Kelton) and the pyrotechnic development (Jackman) which together comprise the non-gun safety blank firing system.
- Frieder Hocheim; Gary H. Swink; Joe Zhou; Don Northrop
- For the development of the Kino Flo Portable, Flicker Free, High Output Fluorescent Lighting System for motion picture set illumination.
- Stephen W. Potter (LarTec Systems); John Asman (LarTec Systems); Charles Pell (LarTec Systems); Richard Larson (I) (LarTec Systems)
- For the advancement and refinement of the computer-controlled list management style ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) system via the LarTech ADR System that has established itself as a standard of the industry.
- Emanuel Previnaire (Flying-Cam)
- For his pioneering concept and for the development of mounting a motion picture camera on a remotely-controlled miniature helicopter.
- Jacques Sax (Sonosax)
- For the design and development of the Sonosax SX-S portable audio mixer.
- Mark R. Schneider; Herbert R. Jones; Christopher D. Conover; John R.B. Brown
- For the development of the Polhemus 3 Space Digitizing System.
- Jack Smith; Michael Crichton; Emil Safier
- For pioneering computerized motion picture budgeting and scheduling.
- Dieter Sturm (I) (Sturm's Special Effects Int'l.)
- For the creation and development of the Bio-Snow 2 Flake.
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