Actress Milla Jovovich hosted this year’s Scientific and Technical Awards honoring the men, women and companies whose discoveries and innovations have contributed in significant, outstanding and lasting ways to motion pictures.

The following Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements were presented on Saturday, February 11, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, CA:

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

The Board of Governors of the Academy has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Douglas Trumbull, a visionary filmmaker who has worked as a designer, director, inventor and entrepreneur, for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the motion picture industry.

John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation

Visual effects technologist Jonathan Erland has been voted the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation by the Board of Governors of the Academy.

Technical Achievement Award (Academy Certificate)

To Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt for the invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra software.

Scientific and Engineering Award (Academy Plaque)

To Radu Corlan, Andy Jantzen, Petru Pop and Richard Toftness for the design and engineering of the Phantom family of high-speed cameras for motion picture production.

To Dr. Jürgen Noffke for the optical design and Uwe Weber for the mechanical design of the ARRI Zeiss Master Prime Lenses for motion picture photography. In a moving moment, the award was accepted by Weber and colleague Christian Bannert, with host Milla Jovovich asking the audience for a moment of silence afterwards in the memory of the late Dr. Noffke.

To Michael Lewis, Greg Marsden, Raigo Alas and Michael Vellekoop for the concept, design and implementation of the Pictorvision Eclipse, an electronically stabilized aerial camera platform.

To E.F. “Bob” Nettmann for the concept and system architecture, Michael Sayovitz for the electronic packaging and integration, Brad Fritzel for the electronic engineering, and Fred Miller for the mechanical engineering of the Stab-C Classic, Super-G and Stab-C Compact stabilizing heads.

To John D. Lowry, Ian Cavén, Ian Godin, Kimball Thurston and Tim Connolly for the development of a unique and efficient system for the reduction of noise and other artifacts, thereby providing high-quality images required by the filmmaking process. An esteemed name in film transfer and restoration, John Lowry passed away three weeks before the ceremony. His wife and colleagues paid tribute to him on the stage, with other recipients throughout the evening also saluting the loss of an industry pioneer.

To FUJIFILM Corporation, Hideyuki Shirai, Dr. Katsuhisa Oozeki and Hiroshi Hirano for the design and development of the FUJIFILM black and white recording film ETERNA-RDS 4791 for use in the archival preservation of film and digital images.

Academy Award of Merit® (Oscar® Statuette)

To Franz Kraus, Johannes Steurer and Wolfgang Riedel for the design and development of the ARRILASER Film Recorder.
Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will be included in the Oscar ceremony.

Photo:

Front row (left to right): Jonathan Erland, Uwe Weber, Johannes Steurer, Wolfgang Riedel, Milla Jovovich, Richard Edlund, Tom Sherak, Douglas Trumbull, Franz Kraus and Greg Marsden.

Second row (left to right): Mark Elendt, Andrew Clinton, E.F. Nettmann, Fred Miller, Ryutaro Hosoda, Hiroshi Hirano, Michael Vellekoop and Michael Sayovitz.

Third row (left to right): Ian Caván, Kimball Thurston, Ian Godin, Dr. Katsuhisa Oozeki, Hideyuki Shirai and Raigo Alas.

Back row (left to right): Andy Jantzen, Petru Pop, Christian Bannert, Richard F. Toftness, Tim Connolly, Radu Corlan, Mary Lowry, Mike Inchalik and Michael Lewis.

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