OSCARS

For their pioneering work in developing dye-based filters that reduce IR contamination when neutral density filters are used with digital cameras.

For the invention of digital micromirror technology as used in DLP Cinema projection.

To Lain Neil for the optical design, and to Andre de Winter for the mechanical design, of the Leica Summilux-C series of lenses.

For their contributions furthering the design and refinement of the Texas Instruments DLP Cinema projection technology, whose high level of performance enabled color-accurate digital intermediate preview and motion picture theatrical presentation.

For the development of the Sony BVM-E Series Professional OLED Master Monitor.

For the development of the HP DreamColor LP2480zx Professional Display.

For the concept and development of the MAT-Towercam Twin Peek, a portable, remote-controlled, telescoping column that smoothly positions a camera up to 24 feet vertically.

For The Biscuit Jr. self-propelled, high-performance, drivable camera and vehicle platform.

For the architecture, development and creation of the artist-driven interface of the ILM Shape Sculpting System.

For their pioneering work in the development of Universal Capture at ESC Entertainment.

To Marco Revelant for the original concepts and artistic vision, and to Alasdair Coull and Shane Cooper for the original architectural and engineering design, of the Barbershop hair grooming system at Weta Digital.

For the design and implementation of the DreamWorks Animation Foliage System.

For the development of the ILM PhysBAM Destruction System.

For leading the design and development of Field3D.

For early conceptualization of sparse-tiled voxel data structures and their application to modeling and simulation.

For the creation of OpenVDB.

For the implementation engineering in the development of the Texas Instruments DLP Cinema digital projection technology.

For the innovative design and development of the MOVA Facial Performance Capture system.

To Michael Sechrest for the modeling design and implementation, Chris King for the real-time interactive engineering, and Greg Croft for the user interface design and implementation of SpeedTree Cinema.

To Erwin Coumans for the development of the Bullet physics library, and to Nafees Bin Zafar and Stephen Marshall for the separate development of two large-scale destruction simulation systems based on Bullet.

To Ben Cole for the design of the Kali Destruction System, to Eric Parker for the development of the Digital Molecular Matter toolkit, and to James O'Brien for his influential research on the finite element methods that served as a foundation for these tools.