Oscar 2008: Best Visual Effects, Short Subjects

Bill Westenhofer, Michael Fink, Trevor Wood, Ben Morris

Oscar 2008: Best Screenplay, Cinematography, Music

Best visual effects
* The Golden Compass (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Walt Disney)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
Transformers (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Best sound editing
* The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal)
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
No Country for Old Men (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Skip Lievsay
Ratatouille (Walt Disney)
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Matthew Wood
Transformers (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Best sound mixing
* The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal)
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
No Country for Old Men (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
Ratatouille (Walt Disney)
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
3:10 to Yuma (Lionsgate)
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
Transformers (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

Best makeup
* La Vie en Rose (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
Norbit (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Best documentary short subject
* Freeheld, A Lieutenant Films Production
Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
La Corona (The Crown), A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production
Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
Salim Baba, A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production
Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
Sari’s Mother (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production
James Longley

Best animated short film
I Met the Walrus, A Kids & Explosions Production
Josh Raskin
Madame Tutli-Putli (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Même les pigeons vont au paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven) (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production
Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
My Love (Moya Lyubov) (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production
Alexander Petrov
* Peter & the Wolf (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production
Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Best live action short film
At Night, A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production
Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
Il Supplente (The Substitute) (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production
Andrea Jublin
* Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets) (Premium Films) A Karé Production
Philippe Pollet-Villard
Tanghi Argentini (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production
Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
The Tonto Woman, A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production
Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

Honorary Award: Robert Boyle

Gordon E. Sawyer Award: David A. Grafton

Medal of Commendation: David Inglish

Academy Award of Merit:
Eastman Kodak
For the development of photographic emulsion technologies incorporated into the Kodak Vision2 family of color negative films.

Scientific and Engineering Award:
Nick Rasmussen; Ronald Fedkiw; Frank Losasso Petterson
For the development of the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) fluid simulation system.
Doug Roble; Nafees Bin Zafar; Ryo Sakaguchi
For the development of the fluid simulation system at Digital Domain.

Technical Achievement Award:
Duncan Brinsmead; Jos Stam; Julia Pakalns; Martin Werner
For the design and implementation of the Maya Fluid Effects system.
Jonathan Cohen (XI); Jerry Tessendorf; Jeroen Molemaker; Michael Kowalski (VIII)
For the development of the system of fluid dynamics tools at Rhythm & Hues.
Sebastian Cramer (III); Andreas Dasser (P&S Technik GmbH)
For the invention and general design (Cramer) and for the mechanical design (Dasser, head of development at P&S Technik GmbH) of the Skater Dolly and its family of products.
Victor Gonzalez (XV); Ignacio Vargas; Angel Tena
For the creation of the RealFlow software application.
Jörg Pöhler (OTTEC Technology GmbH); Rüdiger Kleinke (OTTEC Technology GmbH)
For the design and development of the battery-operated series of fog machines known as "Tiny Foggers".
Christien Tinsley
For the creation of the transfer techniques for creating and applying 2D and 3D makeup known as "Tinsley Transfers".
Stephan Trojansky; Thomas Ganshorn; Oliver Pilarski
For the development of the Flowline fluid effects system.

Photos: Darren Decker (Pollet-Villard), Michael Yada (Byrne, Cody, Roth, Lavergne, Westenhofer, Landers, Welchman), Matt Petit (Francis, Grafton), Richard Harbaugh (Cotillard & Whitaker). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

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