And the Oscar goes to . . .

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To David Pringle and Yan Zhong Fang for the design and development of “Lightning Strikes,” a flexible, high-performance electronic lightning effect system.

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Leonard Pincus, Ashot Nalbandyan, George Johnson, Thomas Kong and David Pringle for the design and development of the SoftSun low pressure xenon long-arc light sources, their power supplies and fixtures. With the ability to dim these very high powered lights at essentially constant Kelvin temperature and without flicker, these units produce a bright and even light source for general set lighting. The availability of very high wattage units allows production to extend the hours of work past the time when the crew would otherwise have “lost the light.”