And the 2023 Scientific and Technical Oscars Go To...
On Sunday, the multiverse might have its biggest win yet at the Oscars, thanks to Everything Everywhere All at Once. But some real science received its own accolades at the Scientific and Technical Awards(Opens in a new window), which took place nearly two weeks ago at a ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, hosted by Simu Liu.
The Scientific and Technical Awards cover many years of work instead of just the past one, since the technologies and techniques often take years of development, and they’re used in films for decades.
Only the winner of the Gordon E. Sawyer Award gets to go home with a traditional Oscar statuette. Instead, the Technical Achievement Award recipients receive an Academy Certificate, the Scientific and Engineering Awards winners get an Academy Plaque, and the Award of Commendation winners earn a Special Plaque.
Although they won’t take the stage on Sunday, the people behind these achievements are stars to us.
When it rains, it pours. And in movies, that’s probably thanks to the 60- and 100-foot Rain Bars invented by Howard Jensen and Danny Cangemi and developed by John Frazier. Maybe the most dramatic and appropriate use of them came in Darren Aronofsky’s film Noah(Opens in a new window).
Mark Hills and Jim Vanns won for the design and engineering of the FQ(Opens in a new window) renderfarm management system, which has helped deliver photorealistic visual effects for movies such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Matt Chambers won for his work on two render management systems: Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Cue3 and Wētā FX’s Plow. Cue3 was first used for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and FX’s Plow was used
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