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For passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema. - Jean-Luc Godard was not present at the awards ceremony. Academy President Tom Sherak accepted the award on his behalf.

(13 Nov 2010) AMPAS Governors Awards: Given 'For a lifetime's worth of indelible screen characters'.

Dr. Mark Sagar, whose development of influential facial motion retargeting solutions has impacted the creation of computer animated feature films. Dr. Sagar's work led to a method of transforming facial motion capture data into an expression-based, editable character animation system to create more lifelike digital characters.

Mark Noel, for the design, engineering, and development, and John Frazier, for his contributions to the design and safety features, of the NAC Servo Winch System, which allows full-size cars, aircraft and other heavy props to be flown on wires with unprecedented freedom of motion and a high degree of safety, on-set and in real time.

For the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies. Cablecam technological evolution has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.

For the development of the Spydercam 3D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies, whose evolution made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.

For the design and engineering of a series of software systems which led to the Rush render queue management system. His work has been influential across the industry, and has enabled scalable render farms at numerous studios.

For the development of the Alfred render queue management system, which was the first robust, scalable, widely adopted commercial solution for queue management in the industry and an influence on modern day queue management tools.

For the development of Queue, a robust, scalable approach to render queue management and one of the first systems that allowed for statistical analysis and process introspection.

For the design and development of the ObaQ render queue management system, which has scaled from managing a few hundred processors in 1997 to many thousands today with minimal changes to the original design.

For the creation of a computer graphics bounce lighting methodology which impacted the evolution of global illumination techniques, first used on the film "Shrek 2," and which was shared with the industry in their technical paper "An Approximate Global Illumination System for Computer Generated Films."

For cineSync, a tool for remote collaboration and review of visual effects.