OSCARS

Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.

For his rich engendering of films and filmmakers.

In recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures.

For unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion.

For the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.

For the design and construction of the NAC servo winches.

For the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion.

For the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process.

For their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.

For their contributions to the development of the Lustre color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.

For the design and development of Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI digital intermediate film, which was designed exclusively to reproduce motion picture digital masters.

For the design and engineering of the Light Stage capture devices and the image-based facial rendering system developed for character relighting in motion pictures.

For their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware system.

For their contributions to the LUTher 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software.

For the development of the Imocap on-set performance capture system.

For advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering.

For the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Heden Lens Motors.