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Academy presents Sci-Tech nods
Tuesday February 10th 2009Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull saluted the men and companies with which he’s worked over the years when he collected the Gordon E. Sawyer statuette as the Academy handed its out its Scientific and Technical Awards at the Beverly Wilshire on Saturday.
Catmull hailed George Lucas, “who had the foresight to reach out and use technology for filmmaking,” as well as Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, his Pixar “family” and the people of Disney.
At all his professional stops, he said, “We learn when we make the movies look good, we make each other look good.”
Earlier, Disney technologist Mark Kimball accepted the Bonner Medal. He confessed that when he’d collected a Sci-Tech Award in 1991, he’d omitted his thanks to his wife; he made sure to do so this time around.
It was mostly a foreign affair Saturday evening as three of the honored groups making up nine of the 12 honorees were from Europe.
Jessica Biel handled hosting duties with aplomb, despite being, by her own description, “technologically inept.” Her smooth delivery of both the technical jargon and the foreign names inspired talk that the Acad might break precedent and ask her to host again.
Sci-Tech Awards chair Richard Edlund told the gathering that he preferred the Sci-Tech Awards to the Oscars because “they’re not as boring,” adding that he hoped rookie Oscarcast producers Lawrence Mark and Bill Condon, attending their first Sci-Tech banquet, would address that deficiency.
Afterward, Mark and Condon would say only that the evening had convinced them that Biel should coach all the presenters.
Source: Variety
Headline, Industry News
Academy presents Sci-Tech nods
Tuesday February 10th 2009Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull saluted the men and companies with which he’s worked over the years when he collected the Gordon E. Sawyer statuette as the Academy handed its out its Scientific and Technical Awards at the Beverly Wilshire on Saturday.
Catmull hailed George Lucas, “who had the foresight to reach out and use technology for filmmaking,” as well as Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, his Pixar “family” and the people of Disney.
At all his professional stops, he said, “We learn when we make the movies look good, we make each other look good.”
Earlier, Disney technologist Mark Kimball accepted the Bonner Medal. He confessed that when he’d collected a Sci-Tech Award in 1991, he’d omitted his thanks to his wife; he made sure to do so this time around.
It was mostly a foreign affair Saturday evening as three of the honored groups making up nine of the 12 honorees were from Europe.
Jessica Biel handled hosting duties with aplomb, despite being, by her own description, “technologically inept.” Her smooth delivery of both the technical jargon and the foreign names inspired talk that the Acad might break precedent and ask her to host again.
Sci-Tech Awards chair Richard Edlund told the gathering that he preferred the Sci-Tech Awards to the Oscars because “they’re not as boring,” adding that he hoped rookie Oscarcast producers Lawrence Mark and Bill Condon, attending their first Sci-Tech banquet, would address that deficiency.
Afterward, Mark and Condon would say only that the evening had convinced them that Biel should coach all the presenters.
Source: Variety
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Headline, Industry News
Academy presents Sci-Tech nods
Tuesday February 10th 2009Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull saluted the men and companies with which he’s worked over the years when he collected the Gordon E. Sawyer statuette as the Academy handed its out its Scientific and Technical Awards at the Beverly Wilshire on Saturday.
Catmull hailed George Lucas, “who had the foresight to reach out and use technology for filmmaking,” as well as Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, his Pixar “family” and the people of Disney.
At all his professional stops, he said, “We learn when we make the movies look good, we make each other look good.”
Earlier, Disney technologist Mark Kimball accepted the Bonner Medal. He confessed that when he’d collected a Sci-Tech Award in 1991, he’d omitted his thanks to his wife; he made sure to do so this time around.
It was mostly a foreign affair Saturday evening as three of the honored groups making up nine of the 12 honorees were from Europe.
Jessica Biel handled hosting duties with aplomb, despite being, by her own description, “technologically inept.” Her smooth delivery of both the technical jargon and the foreign names inspired talk that the Acad might break precedent and ask her to host again.
Sci-Tech Awards chair Richard Edlund told the gathering that he preferred the Sci-Tech Awards to the Oscars because “they’re not as boring,” adding that he hoped rookie Oscarcast producers Lawrence Mark and Bill Condon, attending their first Sci-Tech banquet, would address that deficiency.
Afterward, Mark and Condon would say only that the evening had convinced them that Biel should coach all the presenters.
Source: Variety
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