Awards for 1999
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 Previously Produced or Published
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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, Sound Effects 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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Quest for Camelot: Carole Bayer Sager (music/lyrics), David Foster (music/lyrics), Tony Renis (lyrics), Alberto Testa (lyrics)
For the song "The Prayer".Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
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Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy 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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Honorary Award
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Elia Kazan
In appreciation of a long, distinguished and unparalleled career during which he has influenced the very nature of filmmaking through his creation of cinematic masterpieces. (Oscar statuette).
A great deal of controversy surrounded the presentation of this award to Elia Kazan, as there was still lingering resentment over his appearances before the House of Un-American Activities Committee 47 years earlier. In addition to a handful of protesters outside the theater, many attendees remained seated when he received his award, even refusing to applaud.
The executive council of the Eastern unit of the Writers Guild of America voted to protest against the Academy's decision to present an honorary Oscar to Elia Kazan, accusing Kazan of causing irrevocable harm to the lives and careers of several professional colleagues by informing the House of Un-American Activities Committee that they had once belonged to the Communist Party.
Medal of Commendation
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David W. Gray
For his past and on-going dedication to the advancement of motion picture sound technology.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
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Academy Award of Merit
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(Avid Technology, Inc.)
For the concept, system design and engineering of the Avid Film Composer for motion picture editing.
Scientific and Engineering Award
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Thomas G. Stockham Jr., Robert B. Ingebretsen
For their pioneering work in the areas of waveform editing, crossfades and cut-and-paste techniques for digital audio editing.James A. Moorer
For his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film.Stephen J. Kay (K-Tec Corporation)
For the design and development of the Shock Block.Gary Tregaskis, Dominique Boisvert, Phillippe Panzini, Andre LeBlanc
For the primary design (Tregakis) and for the development and implementation (Boisvert/Panzini/LeBlanc) of the Flame and Inferno software.Bob Predovich, John Scott, Ken Husain, Cameron Shearer
For the design and implementation of the Soundmaster Integrated Operations Nucleus operating environment.Roy Ference, Steve Schmidt, Richard J. Federico, Rocky Yarid, Mike McCrackan
For the design and development of the Kodak Lightning Laser Recorder.Colin Mossman, Hans Leisinger, George John Rowland
For the concept and design of the Deluxe High Speed Spray Film Cleaner.Walter Trauninger (Arnold & Richter Cine Technik) (ARRI USA, Inc., Arnold & Richter Cine Technik (engineering staff))
For the concept (ARRI USA) and the engineering (Arnold & Richter Cine Technik/Trauniger) of the ARRI 435 Camera System.(Arnold & Richter Cine Technik, Carl Zeiss Company)
For the concept and optical design of the Carl Zeiss/Arriflex Variable Prime Lenses.Derek C. Lightbody (OpTex)
For the design and development of Aurasoft luminaires.Mark Roberts, Ronan Carroll, Assaff Rawner, Paul Bartlett, Simon Wakley
For the creation of the Milo Motion-Control Crane.Michael Sørensen (Sorensen Designs International), Richard Alexander (Sorensen Designs International), Don Trumbull
For advancing the state-of-the-art of real-time motion-control, as exemplified in the Gazelle and Zebra camera dolly systems.Ronald E. Uhlig (Eastman Kodak), Thomas F. Powers (Eastman Kodak), Fred M. Fuss (Eastman Kodak)
For the design and development of KeyKode latent-image barcode key numbers.Iain Neil, Takuo Miyagishima (Panavision, Incorporated)
For the optical design (Neil), the mechanical design (Miyagishima and the concept and development (Panavision) of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm cinematography.
Technical Achievement Award
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Jim Rodnunsky (Cablecam Systems), Jim Webber (Cablecam Systems), Bob Webber (Cablecam Systems), Thornton Bayliss
For the design and engineering of Cablecam.David DiFrancesco, N. Balasubramanian, Tom Noggle
For their pioneering efforts in the development of laser film recording technology.Mike MacKenzie (Industrial Light & Magic), Mike Bolles (Industrial Light & Magic), Udo Pampel (Industrial Light & Magic), Joe Fulmer (Industrial Light & Magic)
For their pioneering work in motion-controlled, silent camera dollies.Barry Walton (Sony Pictures Imageworks), Bill Schultz (Sony Pictures Imageworks), Chris Barker (Sony Pictures Imageworks), David Cornelius (Sony Pictures Imageworks)
For the creation of an advanced motion-controlled, silent camera dolly.Bruce Wilton (Mechanical Concepts), Carlos Icinkoff (Mechanical Concepts)
For their modular system of motion-control rotators and movers for use in motion control.Remy Smith, James K. Branch, Nasir J. Zaidi
For the software and electronic design and development (Smith and for the design and development (Branch/Zaidi) of the Spectra Professional IV-A digital exposure meter.Ivan Kruglak
For his commitment to the development of a wireless transmission system for video-assisted images for the motion picture industry.Doug Roble
For his contribution to tracking technology and for the design and implementation of the TRACK system for camera position calculation and scene reconstruction.Thaddeus Beier
For the design and implementation of ras_track, a system for 2D tracking, stabilization and 3D camera and object tracking.Manfred N. Klemme, Donald E. Wetzel
For the design and development of the K-Tek Microphone Boom Pole and accessories for on-set motion picture sound recording.Cary Phillips
For the design and development of the "Caricature" Animation System at Industrial Light & Magic.M.J. Bogdanowicz (Eastman Kodak Company), Jim Meyers (Rosco Laboratories, Inc.), Stan Miller (Rosco Laboratories, Inc.)
For the design of the CalColor Calibrated Color Effects Filters.Carl F. Holtz, David F. Kopperl, A. Tulsi Ram, Richard C. Sehlin
For the research and development of the concept of molecular sieves applied to improve the archival properties of processed photographic film.Takuo Miyagishima (Panavision, Inc.), Albert K. Saiki (Panavision, Inc.)
For the design and development of the Eyepiece Leveler.Edmund M. Di Giulio (Cinema Products), James Bartell (Cinema Products)
For the design of the KeyKode Sync Reader.Ed Zwaneveld (National Film Board of Canada), Frederick Gasoi (National Film Board of Canada), Mihal Lazaridis (Research in Motion), Dale Brubacher-Cressman (Research in Motion)
For refining and further developing electronic time-code slates.
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