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| 23 March |
| Billy Crystal |
| Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| | Awarded to: | | | - Stanley Donen
- In appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation (Oscar statuette).
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| | Awarded to: | | | - Peter Clark (IX)
- For outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy.
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| 28 February |
| Ballroom, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| | Winner: | | | - Gunnar P. Michelson
- For the engineering and development of an improved, electronic, high-speed, precision light valve for use in motion picture printing machines.
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| | Winners: | | | - Dominique Boisvert (IV); Rejean Gagne; Daniel Langlois; Richard Laperriere
- For the development of the "Actor" animation component of the Softimage computer animation system.
- John Gibson (V); Rob Krieger (II); Milan Novacek; Glen Ozymok; Dave Springer
- For the development of the geometric modeling component of the Alias PowerAnimator system.
- Kirk Handley; Ray Meluch; Scott Robinson (II); Wilson Allen; John Neary (II)
- For the design, development and implementation of the Dolby CP500 Digital Cinema Processor.
- Al Jensen (CEI Technology); Chuck Headley (CEI Technology); Jean Messner (CEI Technology); Hazem Nabulsi (CEI Technology)
- For the production of a self-contained, flicker-free, Color Video-Assist Camera.
- Joel Johnson (V) (O'Connor Laboratories)
- For the unique design improvement in fluid-head counter-balancing techniques as used in the O'Connor Laboratories' Model 2575.
- Bill Kovacs; Roy Hall (II)
- For the creative leadership (Kovacs) and the principal engineering (Hall) efforts that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.
- Eben Ostby; William Reeves (II); Sam Leffler; Tom Duff
- For the development of the Marionette Three-Dimensional Computer Animation System.
- Craig W. Reynolds
- For his pioneering contributions to the development of three-dimensional computer animation for motion picture production.
- Richard Shoup; Alvy Ray Smith; Thomas Porter (I)
- For their pioneering efforts in the development of digital paint systems used in motion picture production.
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| | Winners: | | | - James A. Cashin; Roger Hibbard; Larry Jacobson (III)
- For the design, development and implementation of a projection system analyzer.
- Richard Chuang; Glenn Entis; Carl Rosendahl
- For the concept and architecture of the Pacific Data Images (PDI) Animation System.
- Phil Cory
- For the design and development of the Special Effects Spark Generator.
- Clark F. Crites
- For the design and development of the ELF 1-C Endless Loop Film Transport and storage system.
- James F. Foley (UCISCO); Charles Converse (UCISCO); F. Edward Gardner (UCISCO); Bob Stoker; Matt Sweeney (I)
- For the development and realization of the Liquid Synthetic Air system.
- Jim Frazier (III); Iain Neil; Rick Gelbard
- For the concept (Frazier) and the design and development (Neil/Gelbard) of the Panavision/Frazier Lens System for motion picture photography.
- Greg Hermanovic; Kim Davidson (II); Mark Elendt; Paul Breslin (III)
- For the development of the procedural modeling and animation components of the Prisms software package.
- Jim Keating; Michael Wahrman; Richard E. Hollander
- For their contributions that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.
- Dan Leimeter; Bob Weitz
- For the development and implementation of a Portable Adjustment Tool for T-Style Slit Lens Assemblies.
- James M. Reilly (Rochester Institute of Technology); Douglas W. Nishimura (Rochester Institute of Technology); Monique C. Fisher (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- For the creation of A-D Strips, a diagnostic tool for the detection of the presence of vinegar syndrome in processed acetate-based motion picture film.
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