娱乐英语新闻:Technical Oscars to honor 28 recipients for promoting development in filmmaking

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-seven individuals and a company have been named as recipients of annual Scientific and Technical Awards for their achievements in promoting filmmaking, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday.

Among the achievements named by the academy are a software integrating rendering of smoke and clouds with other graphics objects, a high-speed camera system, and the optical and mechanical design of a lens system for motion picture photography, the academy said in a prepared statement.

The awards honoring eight Scientific and Technical achievement that have been proven to contribute "significant value" to the motion picture industry, will be handed out Feb. 11 at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, before the presentation of the 84th annual Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 takes place a fortnight later.

Parts of the technical awards presentation will be featured in the Oscar ceremony, the academy said.

According to the academy, the Technical Achievement Award, in the form of an Academy Certificate, will be presented to Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt, for the invention and integration of micro-voxels in a software which unified efficient rendering of volumetric effects with other computer graphics.

Scientific and Engineering Award, an Academy Plaque, will be conferred upon the following:

-- Radu Corlan, Andy Jantzen, Petru Pop and Richard Toftness for the design and engineering of the Phantom family of high-speed cameras;

-- Jrgen Noffke and Uwe Weber for the development of the ARRI Zeiss Master Prime Lenses for film photography.

-- Michael Lewis, Greg Marsden, Raigo Alas and Michael Vellekoop for the development of an electronically stabilized aerial camera platform.

-- E.F. "Bob" Nettmann, Michael Sayovitz, Brad Fritzel and Fred Miller for the development of a family of camera and lens stabilizers.

-- John D. Lowry, Ian Caven, Ian Godin, Kimball Thurston and Tim Connolly for creating a system of further reducing noise and other artifacts to provide higher-quality images; and

-- Fujifilm Corp., Hideyuki Shirai, Katsuhisa Oozeki and Hiroshi Hirano for the development of a black-and-white recording film for preserving film and digital images.

An Academy Award of Merit, which s incorporated in an Oscar statuette, will be handed out to Franz Kraus, Johannes Steurer and Wolfgang Riedel for the design and development of the ARRILASER Film Recorder.