Awards for 1988
Oscar
Best Picture
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Best Actor in a Leading Role
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Best Actress in a Leading Role
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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Best Director
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Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
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Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
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Best Cinematography
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Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
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Best Costume Design
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Best Sound
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Best Film Editing
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Best Effects, Visual Effects
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Best Makeup
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Best Music, Original Song
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Best Music, Original Score
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Best Short Film, Animated
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Best Short Film, Live Action
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Best Documentary, Short Subjects
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Best Documentary, Features
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Best Foreign Language Film
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Special Achievement Award
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Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
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Academy Award of Merit
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Bernard Kuhl, Werner Block (OSRAM GmbH R&D Dept.)
For the invention and the continuing improvement of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture photography.
Scientific and Engineering Award
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Willie Burth (Kinotone Corp.)
For the invention and development of the Non-rewind Platter System for motion picture presentations.
Ronald C. Barker, Chester L. Schuler (Montage Group, Ltd.)
For the development (Montage) and the invention (Barker/Schuler of the Montage Picture Processor electronic film editing system.
Colin F. Mossman (Rank Film Laboratories' Development Group)
For creating a fully-automated handling system for improving productivity of high speed film processing.
(Eastman Kodak)
For the development of Eastman Color High Speed Daylight Negative Film 5297/7297.
(Eastman Kodak)
For the development of Eastman Color High Speed SA Negative Film 5295 for blue-screen traveling matte photography.
Fritz Gabriel Bauer
For the invention and development of the improved features of the Moviecam Camera System.
Zoran Perisic (Courier Films Ltd.)
For the Zoptic dual-zoom front projection system for visual effects photography.
(Carl Zeiss Co.)
For the design and development of a series of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.
Technical Achievement Award
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Ioan Allen (
Dolby Laboratories)
For the Cat. 43 playback-only noise reduction unit and its practical application to motion picture sound recordings.
Jan Jacobsen
For the application of a dual-screen, front-projection system to motion picture special effects photography.
Tad Krzanowski (Industrial Light and Magic, Inc.)
For the development of a Wire Rig Model Support Mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects.
Dan C. Norris (Norris Film Products), Tim Cook (Norris Film Products)
For the development of a single-frame exposure system for motion picture photography.
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
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