Five cameras among technical achievements at Oscars

For the first time, five digital cinematography cameras have been chosen to become the first major digital cameras to be honored at the Academy Awards ceremony in the US.

Made by Red, Sony, Panavision, Arri and the formerly named Thomson Grass Valley, the five pioneering digital cinematography cameras are among the technical achievements that will be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences next month.

“This year we are particularly pleased to be able to honor not only a wide range of new technologies, but also the pioneering digital cinema cameras that helped facilitate the widespread conversion to electronic image capture for motion picture production,” said Ray Feeney, an Academy Award recipient and chair of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee.

Scientific and Engineering Awards (Academy Plaques) will be given to Arri, for its Super 35 format Alexa digital camera system; Red Digital Cinema, for its Red Epic digital cinema cameras; Sony, for its F65 CineAlta camera; and Panavision and Sony, for the Genesis digital motion picture camera.

The awards are among the 18 scientific and technical achievements, representing 34 individual awards recipients and five organizations, to be honored at the upcoming presentation.

As digital cinema becomes a mature technology, the honored achievements have demonstrated a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures.

Other technologies to be honored during the ceremony include the areas of rendering, facial performance capture and microphones.

“With their outstanding, innovative work, these technologists, engineers and inventors have significantly expanded filmmakers’ creative choices for moving image storytelling,” Feeney noted.

The 89th Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, CA, on February 11.

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