Oscar 2009: Ed Catmull to Receive Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Ed Catmull, a computer scientist, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, has been chosen by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award "for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry."
The award, an Oscar statuette, will be handed to Catmull at the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentations on Saturday, February 7, 2009, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills. Bits from the Scientific and Technical Awards presentation will be shown at the Oscar ceremony to be held on February [...]

by Andre Soares | January 6, 2009   
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