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Feb 5, 2014 · SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit) To AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC. for the concept, system design and engineering of the Avid Film Composer for motion picture editing. The Avid Film Composer is a digital, non-linear, 24 frame-per-second editing machine usinig compression algorithms, that has revolutionized the art of film editing.
Best Picture: TitanicTitanic also won Academy Awards for Art Direction-Set Decoration (Peter Lamont and Michael Ford), Cinematography (Russell Carpenter), Costume Design (Deborah L. Scott), Directing (James Cameron), Film Editing (Conrad Buff, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris), Music – Original Dramatic Score (James Horner), Music – Original Song (“My Heart Will Go On,” James ...
The competitive category was created in 1981 as the Academy Award for Best Makeup, after the academy received complaints that the makeup work in The Elephant Man (1980) was not being honored. Although no award was given to The Elephant Man , an entire category dedicated to honoring makeup effects in film was created for subsequent ceremonies.
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing) [note 1] Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Frank E. Warner: 1978: Best Sound The Deer Hunter: Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin and Darin Knight: The Buddy Holly Story: Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell and Willie D. Burton: Days of Heaven
Avid Technology (For the concept, system design and engineering of the Avid Film Composer for motion picture editing. The Avid Film Composer is a digital, non-linear, 24 frame-per-second editing machine usinig compression algorithms, that has revolutionized the art of film editing.
