And the Oscar goes to . . .

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Jeffrey Yost, Christian Rouet, David Benson and Florian Kainz for the development of a system to create and control computer generated fur and hair in motion pictures.

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Florian Kainz for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating point, high dynamic range image files. Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images.

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Florian Kainz for the design and development of the robust, highly scalable distributed architecture of the QbaQ render queue management system. QbaQ has scaled from managing a few hundred processors in 1997 to many thousands today, with minimal changes to the original design.

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Florian Kainz, Jeffery Yost, Philip Hubbard and Jim Hourihan for the architecture and development of the Zeno application framework. For more than a decade, Zeno’s flexible and robust design has allowed the creation of a broad range of Academy Award-winning visual effects toolsets at ILM.