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Life of Pi

Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

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Young Pi, the son of zookeepers in Pondicherry, India, finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells the zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few of its remaining animals.  A storm capsizes the ship and only Pi escapes, set adrift in a lifeboat that is also the refuge of an enormous Bengal tiger.

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Academy Awards History

This is the third Academy Award nomination for Bill Westenhofer.  He was previously nominated for:

THE GOLDEN COMPASS (2007) 

Winner, Visual Effects

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (2005) 

Nominee, Visual Effects

These are the first Academy Award nominations for Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott.

Nominee Questionnaire

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The irony is not lost on any of us up here that in a film whose central premise  is to ask the audience what they believe is real or not real, most of what you  see is, well, it’s fake. That’s the magic of visual effects.  I want to thank Gil Netter and Elizabeth Gabler and all those at Fox and Fox 2000 for realizing that sometimes it takes a risk to make something special. And LIFE OF PI was a risk worth taking. To our director, Ang Lee, you were an inspiration and you made it an incredible journey for all of us. To David Womark, Mike Malone and Tommy Fisher for making a wave tank that kept us from having to go out to the  real ocean and John Kilkenny for inviting all of us to the party in the first  place. to my family for all the sacrifices they made, Gabrielle I love you so  much, to my children: Christopher, Thomas, Alexander and Samantha thank you for inspiring me every day,  my mom and  dad thank you for telling me to do any  crazy career choice I wanted. Finally, I want to thank all the artists who worked on this film for over a year, including Rhythm & Hues. Sadly Rhythm & Hues is suffering severe financial difficulties right now. I urge you all to remember….
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