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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Oscar 2008: David A. Grafton to Receive Gordon E. Sawyer Award
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to David A. Grafton.
According to the Academy’s press release, Grafton is "a pioneering designer of lenses for optical effects printers, which at the time of their development were adopted by nearly every visual effects facility in the motion picture industry."
For more than three decades, the English-born Grafton designed electro-optical systems for IBM, NCR, EG&G, and Xerox. In the 1970s, he also worked with special effects companies such as Industrial Light & Magic and Boss Film Studios, thus contributing to the production of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, and numerous other motion pictures.
Grafton has already received two [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, David A. Grafton, Film Awards, Gordon E. Sawyer Award, Visual Effects
