87th Academy Awards (2014) — Oscars database

The Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) is the core technology that has enabled Texas Instruments' DLP Cinema projection to become the standard of the motion picture industry.

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

Lenses and Filters

Incorporating novel telecentric multi-element aspherical optics, these camera lenses have delivered unprecedented optical and mechanical performance.

Digital Apparatuses Technology

Working in conjunction with the film industry, Texas Instruments created a high-resolution, high-quality digital projection system that has replaced most film-based projection systems in the theatrical environment.

Digital Apparatuses Technology

These precise, wide-gamut monitors allow creative image decisions to be made on set with confidence that the desired images can be accurately reproduced in post-production.

Digital Apparatuses Technology

This cost-effective display offered a stable, wide color gamut, allowing facility-wide adoption in feature animation and visual effects studios.

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)

Peter Braun

Camera Cranes

This small cross-section system from Mad About Technology can operate from above or below the camera, achieving nearly impossible shots with repeatable movements through openings no larger than the camera itself.

Camera Cranes

The Biscuit Jr.'s unique chassis and portable driver pod enables traveling photography from a greater range of camera positions than previously possible, while keeping actors safe and the rig out of frame.

Digital Apparatuses Technology

Texas Instruments' color-accurate, high-resolution, high-quality digital projection system has replaced most film-based projection systems in the theatrical environment.

Digital Imaging Technology

This comprehensive system allows artists to quickly enhance and modify character animation and simulation performances. It has become a crucial part of ILM's production workflow over the past decade.

Digital Imaging Technology

The MOVA system provides a robust way to capture highly detailed, topologically consistent, animated meshes of a deforming object. This technology is fundamental to the facial pipeline at many visual effects companies. It allows artists to create character animation of extremely high quality.

Digital Imaging Technology

The Universal Capture system broke new ground in the creation of realistic human facial animation. This technology produced an animated, high-resolution, textured mesh driven by an actor's performance.

Digital Imaging Technology

Barbershop's unique architecture allows direct manipulation of full-density hair using an intuitive, interactive and procedural toolset, resulting in greatly enhanced productivity with finer-grained artistic control than is possible with other existing systems.

Digital Imaging Technology

This software substantially improves an artist's ability to create specifically designed trees and vegetation by combining a procedural building process with the flexibility of intuitive, direct manipulation of every detail.

Digital Imaging Technology

This toolset has a hierarchical spline system, a core data format and an artist-driven modeling tool, which have been instrumental in creating art-directed vegetation in animated films for nearly two decades.

Digital Imaging Technology

These pioneering systems demonstrated that large numbers of constrained rigid bodies could be used to animate visually complex, believable destruction effects with minimal simulation time.

Digital Imaging Technology

This system incorporates innovative research on many algorithms that provide accurate methods for resolving contact, collision and stacking into a mature, robust and extensible production toolset. The PhysBAM Destruction System was one of the earliest toolsets capable of depicting large-scale destruction with a high degree of design control.

Digital Imaging Technology

The combined innovations in Kali and DMM provide artists with an intuitive, art-directable system for the creation of scalable and realistic fracture and deformation simulations. These tools established finite element methods as a new reference point for believable on-screen destruction.

Magnus Wrenninge

Digital Imaging Technology

Field3D provides a flexible and open framework for storing and accessing voxel data efficiently. This allows interchange between previously incompatible modeling, simulation and rendering software.

Robert Bridson

Digital Imaging Technology

Robert Bridson's pioneering work on voxel data structures and its subsequent validation in fluid simulation tools have had a significant impact on the design of volumetric tools throughout the visual effects industry.

Digital Imaging Technology

OpenVDB is a widely adopted, sparse hierarchical data structure that provides a fast and efficient mechanism for storing and manipulating voxels.

AWARD OF COMMENDATION

The Tiffen Company identified the problem and rapidly engineered a series of absorptive filters that ameliorated infrared artifacts with lenses of all focal lengths. These widely adopted filters allow cinematographers to work as they have done with film-based technology.