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	Film: Academy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Academy Awards are the most prominent film award in the United States.
		The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2002 had over 6000 members.
		Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!").
	www.theparentingsearch.com /Film/Academy_Awards.shtml (424 words)

	Academy Award - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Academy Awards (nicknamed The Oscars) are the most prominent film awards in the United States.
		The Academy Award statuette was allegedly nicknamed Oscar when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw it on a table and said, "it looks just like my uncle Oscar!" The nickname stuck and is used almost as commonly as Academy Award, even by the Academy itself.
		The awards night itself is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /academy_award.htm (997 words)

	2003 Scientific & Technical Awards \| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		The Scientific and Technical Academy Awards were presented on February 14, 2004, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena.
		Scientific and Technical Awards are given for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts and sciences of motion pictures that also have a proven history of use in the motion picture industry.
		Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical achievement for 2003 are:
	www.oscars.org /scitech/2003/winners.html (583 words)

	Academy Award : Academy award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Such influence isn'thing new - it is widely believed that early media mogule William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to ensure that Citizen Kane, a film regarded by many as the greatest of all time - did not receive Oscars (it received only one, despite nominations in nine categories).
		Academy Award of Scientific or Technical Merit[?] - a statuette
		Academy Award for Technical Achievement - a citation
	www.termsdefined.net /ac/academy-award.html (994 words)

	Scientific & Technical Awards - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Since 1930 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has conducted a program for honoring the artisans whose contributions have made it possible for an industry known as "The Movies" to exist.
		Accompanying the letter are an entry form, the Academy's rules for the award category and a copy of established guidelines that help the committee weigh the eligibility of the applications.
		Entry forms are returned to the Academy within the time allowed for compiling the applications and distributing the information to members of the committee.
	www.oscars.org /scitech/index.html (379 words)

	DJC.COM: TECHNICAL OSCAR WINNERS ANNOUNCED, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		Twenty-three technical winners were announced Friday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		None of this year's technical achievements was deemed worth of an Oscar statuettes, nor will the academy present a Gordon Sawyer Award for special technical accomplishment.
		The Academy awarded certificates of achievement to the makers of a propelling stunt device and a special effects system that creates realistic lightning strikes.
	www.djc.com /news/tech/10004865.html (238 words)

	Map24.com Wins 8th Annual Webby and People’s Voice Award for Technical Achievement
		PC Magazine on Tuesday announced the winners of its 20th annual Awards for Technical Excellence, which recognize products or technologies that have "advanced the state of the art; and will have a significant impact on the future directions of technology."...
		The $15,000 Titanium Award was the largest prize, and the final award presented, at the ceremonies.
		The prize is awarded on a quarterly basis to the website that, among other things, supports the largest number of merchants and drives the greatest percentage increase in online sales for these merchants.
	www.stargeek.com /item/178271.html (1853 words)

	ipedia.com: Academy Award for Technical Achievement Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Technical Achievement Awards is an Academy Award given to those that have technical accomplishments that have contributed to the progress of the motion picture industry.
		Academy Award for Technical Achievement Article - ipedia.com
		They are usually given in a ceremony some days before the main Academy Awards, and are usually not broadcast on television.
	www.ipedia.com /academy_award_for_technical_achievement.html (123 words)

	KODAK: Camerimage Presents Technical Achievement Award to Kodak for Look Manager System
		LODZ, Poland, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Kodak received a Golden Frog Award for Technical Achievement at the 12th annual Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
		The new award recognizes companies and individuals for developing innovative technologies that advance the art of filmmaking.
		"This award was established to broaden the scope of Camerimage to include all aspects of cinematography, including art and technology," says festival director and founder Marek Zydowicz.
	www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/about/news/techAward.jhtml (675 words)

	Marschner shares technical achievement award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A Cornell professor will share in a technical achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a significant advance in the realism of computer graphics and animation.
		The technical achievement awards are part of the 76th annual Academy Awards, but they are presented separately from the televised ceremony and will be mentioned during the telecast.
		The award is presented in the form of a certificate, not an Oscar statuette.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/04/1.22.04/Marschner-award.html (431 words)

	And the Academy Award goes to... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Monique Fischer, AS '94M, made movie history when she accepted her Academy Award for Technical Achievement at a lavish dinner ceremony held in February at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
		Her award marks the first time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored technical achievement in film preservation.
		Sixty awards were given, most of them for engineering achievements in such areas as computer animation and special effects.
	www.udel.edu /PR/Messenger/98/4/academy.html (592 words)

	The Record (Bergen County, NJ) : ÃÂ· Michael J. Sherlock of Hasbrouck Heights was the recipient of the National ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Record (Bergen County, NJ) : ÃÂ· Michael J. Sherlock of Hasbrouck Heights was the recipient of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences' 1993-94 Emmy Award for Technical Achievement.
		Academy of Arts and Sciences' 1993-94 Emmy Award for Technical Achievement.
		Read 'The Record (Bergen County, NJ): ÃÂ· Michael J. Sherlock of Hasbrouck Heights was the recipient of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences' 1993-94 Emmy Award for Technical Achievement.
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	Company/News/08. JAN 2003
		Rendering software is used to "translate" 3D scene data into humanly visible, realistic images and the Academy commended mental ray as "a highly programmable computer-graphics renderer incorporating ray tracing and global illumination to realistically simulate the behavior of light in computer-generated imagery." The Awards will be presented at a ceremony on March 1, 2003.
		In addition to awarding "Oscars®" to actors and movies, the Academy each year presents awards to individuals and companies for their scientific and technical contributions to filmmaking.
		The Academy formally made the award to "Thomas Driemeyer and to the mathematicians, physicists and software engineers of mental images for their contributions to the mental ray rendering software for motion pictures."
	www.mental.com /1_1_news/news_texte/030108.html (736 words)

	Digital Hit Entertainment's Coverage of the 70th Annual Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievement
		Were it not for the many scientific and technical achievements made in the film-making world, we might as well be doing shadow puppets for fun.
		These awards, which will be presented on February 28th, 1998, are voted on by the Academy's Board of Governors based on recommendations from the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee.
		And finally, the Academy awarded an Academy Award Of Merit (Oscar Statuette) to Gunnar P. Michelson for the engineering and development of an improved, electronic, high-speed, precision light valve for use in motion picture printing machines.
	www.digitalhit.com /70academytech.shtml (650 words)

	Globeinvestor.com: ACM SIGGRAPH Congratulates Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen Marschner, and Pat Hanrahan on Their ...
		ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to congratulate Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen Marschner, and Pat Hanrahan on their Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
		The Technical Achievement Award was presented because the mathematical model in their paper contributed substantially to the development and implementation of practical techniques for simulating subsurface scattering of light in translucent materials for computer-generated images in motion pictures.
		A comprehensive technical program and special events focusing on research, art, animation, games, interactivity, and the web are planned.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/ArticleNews/story/BWIRE/20040304/20040304005767 (734 words)

	RIT - News & Events: IPI wins technical achievement Academy award
		That was the phrase that staff at RIT's Image Permanence Institute surely heard in their heads as they recently opened a letter from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences informing them that they had won a Technical Achievement Award for invention of A-D Strips.
		Jean-Louis Bigourdan, a staff scientist in the technical achievement award-winning Image Permanence Institute, inspects film in the lab.
		The award honors IPI Director Jim Reilly, research scientist Douglas Nishimura and former intern Monique Fischer for their development of A-D Strips—an achievement that was one small part of a larger project to study what environmental conditions are best for preserving film.
	www.rit.edu /~930www/NewsEvents/1998/Jan02/ipi.html (626 words)

	Map24.com Wins 8th Annual Webby and People's Voice Award for Technical Achievement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The "best of the web" winners were selected in 30 categories by members of the Academy at the 8th annual Webby Awards presented in San Francisco in May 2004.
		The awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a global organization that includes over 480 members.
		The Webby Awards salute the ingenuity and vision of companies influencing the creative, technical, and professional progress of the Internet and evolving forms of interactive media.
	www.forrelease.com /D20040622/netu009.P2.06212004160011.19746.html (523 words)

	SAIndia.Com - Oscars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Though there has been no major entry like Lagaan this year at the Oscars but we had a desi winner at the the technical awards.
		Kish Sadhvani, founder and CEO of Kish Optics, a lens maker based in North Hollywood, has been named the winner of a 2004 Academy Award for Technical Achievement.
		This week's telecast of the 76th annual presentation of the Academy Awards will boast of dazzling computer-generated graphics which were designed and executed by famed motion picture graphics' creator-producer Kyle Cooper, CEO of Prologue Films.
	www.saindia.com /article/view/112/1/8 (384 words)

	Business Wire : The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Gives Technical Achievement Award for the Design of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Start / B / Business Wire / January 22, 2001 / The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Gives Technical Achievement Award for the Design of Schneider Super-Cinelux Lenses.
		Schneider Optics has announced that five members of the Schneider design team have been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their design of the Schneider Super-Cinelux lenses for motion picture projection.
		In their announcement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wrote, "to Udo Schauss, Hildegard Ebbesmeier and Karl Lenhardt for the optical design, and Ralf Linn and Norbert Brinker for the mechanical design of the Schneider Super-Cinelux lenses for motion picture projection."
	static.elibrary.com /b/businesswire/january222001/theacademyofmotionpictureartsandsciencesgivestechn/index.html (255 words)

	Distinguished Technical Achievement Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		he IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Distinguished Technical Achievement Award is presented to Dr. Burton G. Hurdle for his outstanding contribution to understanding the oceanography and acoustics of the Nordic Seas.
		The result speaks for itself and is a useful and thorough reference, a direct consequence of Dr. Hurdle’s perseverance, diplomatic and technical skills.
		Hurdle is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a member of Sigma)a and a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Science.
	www.ieee.org /organizations/society/oes/html/winter99/hurdle.htm (374 words)

	Pierre Chabert of Airstar Receives Academy Award
		Pierre Chabert, inventor of the lighting balloon and president/CEO of Airstar Space Lighting, will receive an Academy Award for technical achievement on March 1.
		The award is specifically given for "the introduction of balloons with internal light sources to provide lighting for the motion picture industry."
		Although Airstar's balloons are not brand new, according toe awards administration director Rich Miller, achievements in scientific and technical awards do not have to be introduced in 2002 and, in fact, are considered only "if they have a proven track record for showcasing successful, repeated use in the film industry."
	lightingdimensions.com /news/lighting_pierre_chabert_airstar/index.html (188 words)

	Kodak Earns Scientific and Engineering Academy Award For Film Technology
		The company and its scientists have received eight Academy Awards® and more than 30 plaques and certificates for scientific and technical achievements since the inception of the awards.
		AMPAS reserves Scientific and Technical Awards for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the art and science of motion pictures that also have a proven history of use in the industry.
		The Academy Board of Governors votes on these awards based on the recommendations of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee.
	www.digitalvideoediting.com /2004/02_feb/news/kodak0218.htm (398 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Star of the spy drama "Alias" Jennifer Garner hosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday night, the pre-Oscar show where the movie industry honours people and companies that have advanced the process of filmmaking.
		The technical Oscars are usually presented a few weeks before the main Academy Awards in an annual gala that positions itself as something of a revenge of the Hollywood nerds.
		The main award winners of the night, receiving Oscars for their work, were Digidesign, for developing the Pro Tools digital audio workstation; Bill Tondreau of Kuper Controls, for his work with robotic camera systems; and Peter Parks, who won the Gordon Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,256199-1-455,00.html (491 words)

	The Auburn Plainsman - Professor captures motion, Academy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		An Auburn professor took to the red carpet at the 77th annual Academy Awards Feb. 27 in Pasadena, Calif.
		Nels Madsen, associate professor of engineering, received an Academy Award in technical achievement for his work in development of motion capture software.
		Although his wife is proud of his Academy Award, she said she highly regards his work in the classroom.
	www.theplainsman.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/03/422671281f0ca (835 words)

	Academy Award Fever
		The Academy Award season is upon us again with the 74th Annual Academy Award presentations creating the Oscar Fever for the Entertainment Industry and Film Fans around the world.
		The Mill, the renowned Academy Award winning London-based facility, has several films in the various categories.
		The Mill is just one company of many around the world who combine very closely their production and post-production departments by using the best motion control systems available.
	www.mrmoco.com /Newsletter/AcademyAwardFever.htm (185 words)

	ECE Alumni News - Summer 2002 - Alumnus wins Academy Award
		In early March, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Sullivan and his MARS co-creator with a 2001 Academy Award for Technical Achievement for their innovative software system.
		The Academy Award for Technical Achievement that Sullivan won was in the form of a certificate.©Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences™
		“The Technical Achievement Awards are fairly hard to get and we were surprised to get one so soon because usually something has to be out and proven for many years,” said Sullivan, referring to the fact that MARS took about two years to develop and implement.
	www.ece.uiuc.edu /alumni/su02/alumnus.html (932 words)

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