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	Academy Awards @ Filmbug
		The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5816, with actors, with a membership of 1311, making up the largest voting block.
		Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!").
		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 (who usually loan them to the stars to gain publicity).
	www.filmbug.com /dictionary/academy-awards.php (935 words)

	OSCAR.com - 78th Annual Academy Awards - Achievement in Visual Effects
		This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Joe Letteri.
		This is the sixth Academy Award nomination for Richard Taylor.
		ACADEMY AWARD(S)®, OSCAR(S)®;, OSCAR NIGHT® and OSCAR®; statuette design mark are the registered trademarks and service marks, and the OSCAR®; statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.oscar.com /nominees/achievementinvisualeffectsnominee2.html (331 words)

	Academy Award for Visual Effects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Academy Award for Visual Effects is an Oscar given to one film each year that shows highest achievement in visual effects.
		For a film to be nominated for this award, the effects artist must have created something not available for filming.
		According to the official Academy Award rules, the criteria are:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Visual_Effects (402 words)

	SCS
		Joe is the winner of two Academy Awards® for the visual effects of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.
		He is also the recipient of the Academy’s Technical Achievement Award for co-developing the subsurface scattering technique that was used to bring Gollum to life.
		Joe joined Weta Digital Ltd in 2001 as visual effects supervisor on the The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, a role he kept for The Return of the King and King Kong.
	calendar.cs.cmu.edu /dlseries/2824.html (355 words)

	Visual and Special Effects Film Milestones
		This RKO film was the first end-of-the-world, big-budget disaster/science-fiction film in the sound era, featuring revolutionary visual effects to depict an earthquake and simulate turbulent tidal waves hitting New York City, due to an eclipse of the sun.
		With great special effects, featuring rainstorms, and a violent earthquake in Ranchipur that burst a huge dam and sent a wall of water through the center of the city, causing a major flood and the collapse of a temple.
		Featuring state-of-the-art visual effects and seamless model miniatures, it was also the first science-fiction film to feature "flying saucers" and the first true robot, Gort.
	www.filmsite.org /visualeffects2.html (1372 words)

	Visual and Special Effects Film Milestones
		The film was best-known for the genuinely shocking and memorable chest-bursting special effects scene in which crew member Kane (John Hurt) had blood and the Alien graphically explode out of the front of his white T-shirt - the hissing, razor sharp-toothed monster-lizard looked around and then scurried off to hide.
		The visual effects in Michael Crichton's high-tech science-fiction thriller featured the first CGI human character, model Cindy (Susan Dey) - her digitization was visualized by a computer-generated simulation; also noted for the first use of shaded 3-D CGI.
		Part of the reason for this film winning the Academy Award was due to its awesome climax with amazing visual effects, revealing the power of the Ark of the Covenant as it was opened by the face-melting Nazis.
	www.filmsite.org /visualeffects4.html (1089 words)

	LA SIGGRAPH: Home: HTML version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		DEAN WRIGHT (visual effects supervisor) has been involved with motion picture visual effects for over a decade on such prestigious projects as "Titanic," "What Dreams May Come," "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," all Academy Award® winners for their innovative effects works.
		Collaborating with Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato, Wright dove into what would prove to be the most popular movie of all time, "Titanic," which captured 11 Academy Awards® in 1997, including the Oscar® for Best Visual Effects.
		Bill Westenhofer is the visual supervisor leading the Rhythm and Hues’ team on "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" for Walden Media/Disney.
	www.la.siggraph.org /html/events/dec2005-bios.html (858 words)

	Discreet Congratulates Visual Effects Academy Award Winner - Plugins and Digital Tools For Digital Artists - Pluginz.com
		Using Discreet's inferno(r) visual effects system, the artists at WETA composited together scenes in which Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and the Fellowship continue their quest to destroy the evil ring in the darker, more foreboding lands of Middle Earth.
		Discreet's own Academy Award-winning inferno and flame systems are used by visual effects artists to create magic in films, broadcasts, music videos and commercials-particularly those at the highest definitions such as 2K and HDTV-that marry live action with computer-generated effects to bring a story to life-impacting and enchanting the viewing experience.
		In 2002 the companies were awarded two Oscars for their work on the first film in the Peter Jackson directed Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
	www.pluginz.com /news/547 (516 words)

	LA SIGGRAPH Newsletters/2002_05_15.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dykstra was visual effects supervisor on feature films "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin." He teamed with Imageworks in March 1998 to supervise visual effects and direct second unit for "Stuart Little" for which he was again nominated for an Academy Award.
		By 1994 the field of visual effects was exploding.
		Stokdyk is currently digital effects supervisor on "Spider-Man," where his team is creating the digital characters of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin as well as a synthetic version of several locations in New York City.
	la.siggraph.org /Newsletters/2002_05_15.html (1472 words)

	Imageworks - John Dykstra
		Dykstra went on to design the visual effects for the Academy Award nominated international hit "Spider-Man," and last year he completed production on the highly anticipated sequel, "Spider-Man 2" which garnered him a second Academy Award.
		Dykstra won an Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects for his work on "Star Wars" and was also recognized with an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award in 1977 for his work at ILM creating a facility "uniquely oriented toward visual effects photography."
		Dykstra's next challenge was to bring the effects world to television with the groundbreaking "Battlestar Galactica." Dykstra produced the series and served as visual effects supervisor, working with his key creative team from "Star Wars" in their newly formed company, Apogee.
	www.imageworks.com /company/bios/jdykstra.html (439 words)

	Visual and Special Effects Film Milestones
		With stunning digital effects in a historical epic/drama - the passengers on the deck, the wide shots of the ocean and sky, even Kate Winslet's iris that was digitally inserted into one of Gloria Stuart's eyes.
		There were about 400 visual effects shots in the film, including about 235 Godzilla CGI shots.
		It depicted an imaginative and impressionistic visuals and landscapes of the after-life world, especially the "paint world" in which the entire world was an expressionistic landscape literally made of paint.
	www.filmsite.org /visualeffects9.html (927 words)

	Visual effects? US may send work to India
		There is great interest in the United States for outsourcing post-production work in the entertainment and media industry to India, US-based experts on animation and visual effects said in Chennai on Tuesday.
		The entertainment and media industry is on an upswing after three years of sluggish growth, caused by economic weakness and terrorism.
		The meeting was organised by the Chennai-based training institute, Image College of Arts, Animation and Technology, which offers courses in 3D animation, visual effects and game development.
	www.rediff.com /money/2004/oct/26bpo2.htm (458 words)

	Hollywood Film Festival®
		The "Hollywood Awards" will be bestowed upon the honorees during the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony on Monday evening, October 18, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
		Oscar®-winning visual effects artist John Dykstra won an Academy Award for his work on "Star Wars," and received three other Oscar®; nominations for his visual effects on "Spider-Man," "Stuart Little" and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." Mr.
		Academy Award-winning production designer Stuart Craig won three Oscars®; for "The English Patient," "Dangerous Liaisons," and "Gandhi," and he received four other Oscar®; nominations for his production designing on "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Chaplin," "The Mission," and "The Elephant Man." Mr.
	www.hollywoodawards.com /news/2004/craftkudos.html (479 words)

	SGI BEHIND SEVEN YEARS OF ACADEMY AWARD FINALISTS FOR VISUAL EFFECTS
		For Visual Effects Supervisor John Nelson (City of Angels) and his team at London's The Mill Film Ltd., the task presented by director Ridley Scott on his epic period piece, Gladiator, was formidable to say the least.
		To create the staggering numbers of visual effects shots, ILM needed a huge battalion of animators, compositors and renderers to harness the power of these SGI systems.
		The Academy Award-nominated visual effects of Gladiator, Hollow Man and The Perfect Storm are the product of the imagination and skill of a myriad of artists from The Mill Ltd., SPI with Tippett Studio and ILM.
	www.pressbox.co.uk /Detailed/1057.html (1147 words)

	Imageworks - press
		For the Academy® Award nominated (visual effects) Spider-Man 2, the visual effects team needed the audience to not only believe that Spider-Man could swing through Manhattan on a thread, but for them to truly feel the emotion and step off the edge right along with the superhero.
		Both Spider-Man 2 and The Polar Express are nominated for Imagina Awards at this year's show, as well as garnering nominations for the upcoming Visual Effects Society Awards.
		Imageworks continues to raise the level of the visual effects and character animation businesses, becoming a major force in the industry by providing leading edge technology to its world-class artists.
	www.sonypictures.com /imageworks/press/imagina_2005.html (588 words)

	NAB2006 - The World's Largest Electronic Media Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In early 2002, filmmaker Peter Jackson called upon Wright to fill the roll of Visual Effects Producer for the final two chapters in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King," teaming with Oscar® winning VFX Supervisor Jim Rygiel.
		In 2003, "The Two Towers" would be recognized for its revolutionary achievements in Visual Effects with an astounding eight Visual Effects Society Awards, the BAFTA Award, as well as the Academy Award® for Visual Effects.
		He created breathtaking visual effects and earned triple nominations, including an Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA nomination and a VES nomination for best visual effects.
	www.nabshow.com /conferences/participantbio.asp?id=19558 (373 words)

	SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS - Current Projects
		New characters and new challenges that in the eyes of visual effects supervisor Jerome Chen will go way beyond the groundbreaking results of the first film will engage the facility throughout 2000 and 2001.
		This is Zemeckis’ ninth collaboration with Ken Ralston, with whom you can be assured a creative and novel application of the art of visual effects.
		"Academy Award" and "Oscar" are registered trademarks of he Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.imageworks.com /current_projects.html (197 words)

	Spider-Man
		Four-time Academy Award® nominee JOHN DYKSTRA, ASC (Visual Effects Designed By) was most recently honored with an Academy Award® nomination for Visual Effects for his work on the record-breaking box office phenomenon Spider-Man, which was directed by Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe.
		Dykstra produced and served as visual effects supervisor for the television series Battlestar Galactica, working with his key creative team from Star Wars in their newly formed company, Apogee.
		It was during his time at Apogee that Dykstra and his effects team worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as well as contributing to visual effects for other feature films, as well as theme parks and video games.
	spiderman.sonypictures.com /movie/cast_crew/dykstra.php (390 words)

	SGI - Newsroom: SGI Behind Seven Years of Academy Award Finalists For Visual Effects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (March 20, 2001)— For the seventh consecutive year, every Academy Award finalist in the area of visual effects has relied on the power of SGI® systems to create amazing images in the industry's most innovative films.
		For Visual Effects Supervisor John Nelson (City of Angels) and a team lead by Mill Film's visual effects supervisor Tim Burke, the task presented by director Ridley Scott on his epic period piece, Gladiator, was formidable to say the least.
		The Academy Award— nominated visual effects of Gladiator, Hollow Man and The Perfect Storm are the product of the imagination and skill of a myriad of artists from Mill Film, SPI with Tippett Studio and ILM.
	sgi.com /company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2001/march/academy.html (1192 words)

	SGI Sweeps Academy Award Visual Effects Nominations for Eighth Year
		For the eighth consecutive year all films nominated for an Academy Award® for Distinguished Achievement in Visual Effects relied on SGI® computer graphics systems to create the year's most unforgettable images.
		We are particularly gratified that so many of the effects and animations were created using a full complement of SGI IRIX and SGI Linux systems—a powerful combination that we believe will advance the art and science of visual effects and animation for years to come."
		The winners of the Visual Effects and Best Animated Feature Film categories will be announced on March 24 during the 74th Annual Academy Awards broadcast.
	millimeter.com /news/video_sgi_sweeps_academy/index.html (253 words)

	Star Wars: Biography \| Dennis Muren
		Recipient of eight Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, Muren is actively involved in the evolution of the company, as well as the design and development of new techniques and equipment.
		In June 1999, Muren became the first visual effects artist to be honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
		1982 E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL - Visual Effects Supervisor
	www.starwars.com /bio/dennismuren.html (296 words)

	SGI Behind Seven Years of Academy Award Finalists for Visual Effects
		SGI and Partners Once Again Sweep Academy Award Nominations MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- For the seventh consecutive year, every Academy Award finalist in the area of visual effects has relied on the power of SGI(TM) (NYSE: SGI) systems to create amazing images in the industry's most innovative films.
		The epic war sequence that opens Gladiator is a stunning re-creation of a battle between the Roman legion and German warriors.
		SPI's visual effects supervisor, Scott Anderson, and his 150-plus person team quickly realized that creating an invisible man on-screen meant building a completely digital human from the inside out.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/03-20-2001/0001451703 (959 words)

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		Stetson, who is supervising the production of visual effects for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, won the Academy Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award in 2002 for visual effects on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
		He began his career in visual effects with Star Trek: The Motion Picture and went on to work on such films as Blade Runner, The Right Stuff, 2010, Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
		He made his debut as a visual effects supervisor on director Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, for which he won his first BAFTA Award.
	www.animationmagazine.net /people/11_19_02.html (357 words)

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