OSCARS

At age 88, Christopher Plummer became the oldest Academy Award nominee for acting.

Mary J. Blige becomes the first African American woman to receive multiple Oscar nominations in the same year. Additionally, she becomes the first person to be nominated in both a music category and an acting category in the same year.

To Mark Elendt and Side Effects Software for the creation and development of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. Accepting on behalf of Side Effects Software was Kim Davidson.

For the visionary design, development and stewardship of the Nuke compositing system.

For the concept, design, engineering and implementation of the Shotover K1 Camera System.

For their contributions to the design and architecture of the Houdini visual effects and animation system.

For their significant contributions to the architecture and extensibility of the Nuke compositing system.

To Leonard Chapman for the overall concept, design and development, to Stanislav Gorbatov for the electronic system design, and to David Gasparian and Souhail Issa for the mechanical design and integration of the Hydrascope telescoping camera crane systems.

To Jason Smith and Jeff White for the original design, and to Rachel Rose and Mike Jutan for the architecture and engineering, of the BlockParty procedural rigging system at Industrial Light & Magic.

To Joe Mancewicz, Matt Derksen and Hans Rijpkema for the design, architecture and implementation of the Rhythm & Hues Construction Kit rigging system.

To Alex Powell for his contribution to the design and engineering, to Jason Reisig for his contribution to the interaction design, and to Martin Watt and Alex M. Wells for their contributions to the high-performance execution engine of the Premo character animation system at DreamWorks Animation.

To Rob Jensen for the foundational design and continued development, to Thomas Hahn for the animation toolset, and to George Elkoura, Adam Woodbury and Dirk Van Gelder for the high-performance execution engine of the Presto Animation System at Pixar Animation Studios.

For technological contributions that have brought credit to the industry.