SAN FRANCISCO — Dolby Laboratories announced that Ray Dolby, an American inventor recognized for developing groundbreaking audio technologies, died today at his home in San Francisco, at the age of 80 ...
September 13, 2013
BEVERLY HILLS — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) will explore how stunt artists use emerging technologies to bring previously impossible stunts to the screen. “Real to ...
September 6, 2013
BEVERLY HILLS — Fourteen scientific and technical achievements have been selected by The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for further consid ...
August 21, 2013
BEVERLY HILLS — Sixteen students from colleges and universities around the world were honored on June 8 as winners at the 40th Student Academy Awards. The event was held at the Academy's Samuel Goldwy ...
June 10, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Lucasfilm Ltd. Has promoted John Knoll to chief creative officer of Industrial Light & Magic (www.ilm.com). Knoll joined the company in 1986 and has served as a visual effects supe ...
May 23, 2013
Visual effect pioneer Ray Harryhausen has doe at the age of 92. His Facebook page made the announcement and included the following details:
May 8, 2013
In light of current events, the Visual Effects Society (VES), an honorary body comprised of the very best visual effects artists around the world, today issues two calls to action: First, we call upon ...
February 27, 2013
ROUND ROCK, TX — Dell media and entertainment solutions helped power visual effects shots in several films that were up for Oscar consideration at the 85th Annual Academy Awards.
February 26, 2013
HOLLYWOOD — Supervising sound editors Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers of Soundelux received the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing on Sunday, recognizing their creative contributions to the Jam ...
February 25, 2013
LOS ANGELES — Dattner Dispoto and Associates cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC won the Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Academy Award on Sunday for his work on director Ang Lee’s Life of P ...