Academy Awards ("Oscars")
Bill Kovacs and Roy Hall received a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award (i.e. an "Oscar") from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1998, for their work on the Advanced Visualizer.
Jim Hourihan received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the creation of Dynamation.
In 2003, Alias|Wavefront was awarded an Academy Award (i.e. an "Oscar") for scientific and technical achievement for their Maya software, which had been created from a combination of the earlier software of Wavefront, Alias, and TDI.
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“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)