PIXAR BOSS TO BE HONOURED WITH TECHNICAL OSCAR
Pixar Animation Studios co-founder and president ED CATMULL is to be honoured with an Oscar at the Scientific and Technical Awards presentations in Los Angeles on 7 February (09).
Catmull will receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the movies.
As well as founding Pixar - the studio behind movie hits like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Cars and Wall-E - Catmull is also the man behind the formation of the computer graphics laboratory at the New York Institute of Technology and the computer division of Lucasfilm Ltd.
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