88th ceremony (2015) FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Son of Saul

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Hungary

88th ceremony (2015) JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
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88th ceremony (2015) HONORARY AWARD
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88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

LAIKA's inventive use of rapid prototyping has enabled artistic leaps in character expressiveness, facial animation, motion blur and effects animation. Through highly specialized pipelines and techniques, 3D printing capabilities have been harnessed with color uniformity, mechanical repeatability, and the scale required to significantly enhance stop-motion animated feature films.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

Combining powerful, multilayer painting tools and a unique texture-management system, MARI simplifies working with large, high-resolution texture sets. It has achieved broad adoption in the visual effects industry, often supplanting long-term in-house systems.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Special Photographic

The Image Shaker was unique and superior to alternatives in use when it was invented two decades ago, and it continues to be used today.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Stage Operations

This system of modular inflatable panels can be erected on location, at lengths reaching hundreds of feet, with exceptional speed and safety. When used to support blue or green screens, the Airwall permits composite shots of unprecedented scale.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Apparatuses Technology

The PRM's pioneering and innovative design allows the stable, accurate representation of images with the entire luminance range and color gamut used in contemporary theatrical feature presentation.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

Geometry Tracker facilitates convincing interaction of digital and live-action elements within a scene. Its precise results and tight integration with other ILM animation technologies solve a wider range of match-animation challenges than was previously possible.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

RV's multi-platform toolset for review and playback, with comprehensive APIs, has allowed studios of all sizes to take advantage of a state-of-the-art workflow and has achieved widespread adoption in the motion picture industry.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

Over its nearly two decades of development, this pioneering system enabled desktop and digital theater review. It continues to provide artist-driven, integrated, consistent and highly scalable studio-wide playback and interactive reviews.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

This consistent, integrated, production database-backed review system enables a recordable workflow and an efficient, collaborative content review process across multiple sites and time zones.

88th ceremony (2015) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
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Digital Imaging Technology

With an extensive plugin API and comprehensive facility integration including editorial functions, Itview provides an intuitive and flexible creative review environment that can be deployed globally for highly efficient collaboration.

87th ceremony (2014) FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Ida

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Poland