The fact that besides the gloriösen Oscars for directors and actors and technical Oscars are awarded, is in the media attention usually under. But there are exceptions - among the above link is a text or on an interview with two of this year's winners, namely, The Foundry, which won an Oscar for their plug-in suite Furnace have received, as well as Industrial Light and Magic (image-based Modeling and OpenEXR). Here, incidentally, still 
a chronological list on award-winning film technical achievements.
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