Oscar 2007: Best Documentary Short, Animated Short

Oscar 2007: Best Cinematography, Music

Achievement in makeup
Apocalypto (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Click (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe

Best documentary short subject
* The Blood of Yingzhou District
A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Recycled Life
An Iwerks/Glad Production
Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream
A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Two Hands
A Crazy Boat Pictures Production
Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr

Best animated short film
* The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada)
A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production
Torill Kove
Lifted (Buena Vista)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Gary Rydstrom
The Little Matchgirl (Buena Vista)
A Walt Disney Pictures Production
Roger Allers and Don Hahn
Maestro (Szimplafilm)
A Kedd Production
Geza M. Toth
No Time for Nuts (20th Century Fox)
A Blue Sky Studios Production
Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier

Best live action short film
Binta y la gran idea / Binta and the Great Idea
A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production
Javier Fesser and Luis Manso
Éramos Pocos / One Too Many (Kimuak)
An Altube Filmeak Production
Borja Cobeaga
Helmer & Son
A Nordisk Film Production
Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson
The Saviour
An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production
Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn
* West Bank Story
An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production
Ari Sandel

Honorary Academy Award: Ennio Morricone

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Sherry Lansing

Gordon E. Sawyer Award: Ray Feeney

Medal of Commendation: Richard Edlund

Award of Commendation:
Ioan Allen; J. Wayne Anderson; Mary Ann Anderson; Ted Costas; Paul R. Goldberg; Shawn Jones; Tom Kuhn; Dr. Alan Masson; Colin Mossman; Martin Richards; Frank Ricotta; Richard C. Sehlin
for their contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks.

Scientific and Engineering Award:
Dr. Bill Collis; Simon Robinson; Ben Kent; Anil Kokaram
for the design and development of the Furnace integrated suite of software tools that robustly utilizes temporal coherence for enhancing visual effects in motion picture sequences.
Phillip Feiner (Pacific Title and Art Studio); Jim Houston (Pacific Title and Art Studio); Denis Leconte (Pacific Title and Art Studio); Chris Bushman (Pacific Title and Art Studio)
for the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM archival masters for digital film restoration.
Howard Preston; Mirko Kovacevic
for the design and engineering of the Preston Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system.
Steve Sullivan; Colin Davidson; Max Chen; Francesco Callari
for the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System.

Technical Achievement Award:
Bill Feightner (E-Film); Chris Edwards (E-Film)
for the design and development of the E-Film process for creating archival separations from digital image data.
Florian Kainz
for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating-point, high dynamic range image files.
Klemens Kehrer; Josef Handler; Thomas Smidek; Marc Shipman Mueller
for the design and development of the Arriflex 235 Camera System.
Peter Litwinowicz; Pierre Jasmin
for the design and development of the RE: Vision Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation.
Joshua Pines (Technicolor Digital Intermediates); Chris Kutcka (Technicolor Digital Intermediates)
for the design and development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data.
Albert Ridilla; Papken Shahbazian; Ronald Belknap; Jay McGarrigle
for the design and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer.
Walter Trauniger; Ernst Tschida
for the design and engineering of the Arri WRC wireless remote lens control system.
Christian Tschida (cmotion); Martin Waitz (cmotion)
for the design and engineering of the cmotion Wireless Remote System.

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