Winners

• Linus Sandgren

• Colleen Atwood

• Damien Chazelle

• Ezra Edelman
• Caroline Waterlow

• Orlando von Einsiedel
• Joanna Natasegara

• John Gilbert

Iran

• Alessandro Bertolazzi
• Giorgio Gregorini
• Christopher Nelson

• Justin Hurwitz

• Justin Hurwitz
• Benj Pasek
• Justin Paul

City Of Stars

• Dede Gardner
• Jeremy Kleiner
• Adele Romanski

• David Wasco
• Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

• Alan Barillaro
• Marc Sondheimer

• Kristof Deák
• Anna Udvardy

• Sylvain Bellemare

• Kevin O'Connell
• Robert Mackenzie
• Andy Wright
• Peter Grace

• Robert Legato
• Andrew R. Jones
• Dan Lemmon
• Adam Valdez

• Barry Jenkins
• Tarell Alvin McCraney

• Kenneth Lonergan

• Jackie Chan

• Anne Coates

• Lynn Stalmaster

• Frederick Wiseman

• ARRI

With an intuitive design and appealing image reproduction, achieved through close collaboration with filmmakers, ARRI's Alexa cameras were among the first digital cameras widely adopted by cinematographers.

• Red Digital Cinema

RED's revolutionary design and innovative manufacturing process have helped facilitate the wide adoption of digital image capture in the motion picture industry.

• Sony

Sony's unique photosite orientation and true RAW recording deliver exceptional image quality.

• Panavision
• Sony

Using a familiar form factor and accessories, the design features of the Genesis allowed it to become one of the first digital cameras to be adopted by cinematographers.

• Marcos Fajardo
• Christopher Kulla
• Alan King
• Thiago Ize
• Clifford Stein

Arnold's scalable and memory-efficient single-pass architecture for path tracing, its authors' publication of the underlying techniques, and its broad industry acceptance were instrumental in leading a widespread adoption of fully ray-traced rendering for motion pictures.

• Vladimir Koylazov

V- Ray's efficient production-ready approach to ray-tracing and global illumination, its support for a wide variety of workflows, and its broad industry acceptance were instrumental in the widespread adoption of fully ray-traced rendering for motion pictures.

• J.P. Lewis
• Luca Fascione
• Iain Matthews

FACETS was one of the first reliable systems to demonstrate accurate facial tracking from an actor-mounted camera, combined with rig-based solving, in large-scale productions. This system enables animators to bring the nuance of the original live performances to a new level of fidelity for animated characters.

• Fox Film Corporation
• Steven Rosenbluth

This user-friendly hardware and software system creates and controls complex interactions of real and virtual motion in hard real-time, while safely adapting to the needs of on-set filmmakers.

• Thomson Grass Valley

The Viper camera enabled frame-based logarithmic encoding, which provided uncompressed camera output suitable for importing into existing digital intermediate workflows.

• Larry Gritz

OSL is a highly optimized runtime architecture and language for programmable shading and texturing that has become a de facto industry standard. It enables artists at all levels of technical proficiency to create physically plausible materials for efficient production rendering.

• Carl Ludwig
• Eugene Troubetzkoy
• Maurice Van Swaaij

CGI Studio's groundbreaking ray-tracing and adaptive sampling techniques, coupled with streamlined artist controls, demonstrated the feasibility of ray-traced rendering for feature film production.

• Brian Whited

Meander's innovative curve-rendering method faithfully captures the artist's intent, resulting in a significant improvement in creative communication throughout the production pipeline.

• Mark Rappaport
• Scott Oshita
• Jeff Cruts
• Todd Minobe

The Animatronic Horse Puppet provides increased actor safety, close integration with live action, and improved realism for filmmakers.

• GLENN SANDERS
• HOWARD STARK

The Zaxcom system has advanced the state of wireless microphone technology by creating a fully digital modulation system with a rich feature set, which includes local recording capability within the belt pack and a wireless control scheme providing real-time transmitter control and time-code distribution.

• David Thomas
• Lawrence E. Fisher
• David Bundy

The Lectrosonics system has advanced the state of wireless microphone technology by means of an innovative digital predictive algorithm to realize full fidelity audio transmission over a conventional analog FM radio link, by reducing transmitter size, and by increasing power efficiency.

• Parag Havaldar

This pioneering system enabled large-scale use of animation rig-based facial performance-capture for motion pictures, combining solutions for tracking, stabilization, solving and animator-controllable curve editing.

• Nicholas Apostoloff
• Geoff Wedig

These systems evolved through independent, then combined, efforts at two different studios, resulting in an artist-controllable, editable, scalable solution for the high-fidelity transfer of facial performances to convincing digital characters.

• Kiran Bhat
• Michael Koperwas
• Brian Cantwell
• Paige Warner

This system enables high-fidelity facial performance transfer from actors to digital characters in large-scale productions while retaining full artistic control, and integrates stable rig-based solving and the resolution of secondary detail in a controllable pipeline.

• Leonardo DiCaprio

Hugh Glass

• Mark Rylance

Rudolf Abel

• Brie Larson

Ma

• Alicia Vikander

Gerda

• Peter Docter
• Jonas Rivera

• Emmanuel Lubezki

• Jenny Beavan

• Alejandro González Iñárritu

• Asif Kapadia
• James Gay-Rees