After the official announcement of this year's Oscar nominees, the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy has announced to the winners of the Scientific and Technical Awards of 2025, which are generally not a part (and they are barely recognized in) the ceremony Annual television. In part, that is because the people who win these awards are not the celebrities that Oscar Show producers believe they will attract a television audience. But it is also because many of the awards are for inventions and innovations that will be almost invisible to the average spectator. Few of us spend a lot of time thinking about the importance of, for example, citing an explanation of one of the winners of 2024, “the integration of multiple digital content creation tools into a coherent production pipe.”
But several of this year's winners are more striking than that, and it is certainly more likely to be noticed on the screen. Two of the three major topics in the scientific and technical awards of 2025 are the stabilization of the camera and the improvement of the CG software, tools that have an impact on the processes behind the scene of many films. The third big topic is “Tools used to set the people set up.” Thanks to these innovations, members of the acrobatics crew can be turned on for longer periods, with less obvious physical protection and a greater degree of security.
“These vital technologies have expanded the visual possibilities of cinema, creating new and convincing experiences for spectators,” the co -chants of the Academy scientific and technical awards committee said in a press release. What they did not say, and should have, “setting fire to the specialists is totally rude and always attracts the attention of the audience, and we would like to see more of that.”
Given the long -lasting argument that the academy should give the Oscars for the best trick of the year, it is intriguing It is still far from recognizing the designers and coordinators of acrobatics and coordinators. themselves.
Here are the winners of 2025 in the scientific and technical categories of the Academy Awards:
Technical Achievements Awards
A Essex Edwards, James Jacobs, Jernej Barbic, Crawford Doran and Andrew Van Straten for the design and development of Ziva VFX.
Ziva VFX is a system to build and simulate muscles, fat, fascia and skin for digital characters. A friendly interface for artists that emphasizes easily understood physical metaphors, along with a robust and physically precise solution, has allowed a wide range of studies to give life to visually rich creatures.
To Javor Kalojanov and Kimball Thurson for the creation of ML Denoiser of WēTā FX.
This Denoiser prioritizes temporary filtering using innovative optical flow techniques to preserve crucial details. The new training strategies allow their automatic learning algorithms to drew up images generated by computer with the most demanding standards.
A Neeme Vaino for the development of the naked burning gel of Fireleskin360.
This widely available gel allows longest directed burns directly on the skin, expanding the range of fire acrobatics carried out throughout the industry.
To Dustin Brooks and Colin Decker for the development of the bare burning gel.
Fire for Hire's Gel first publicly demonstrated a “bare burn”, where fire appears directly on the skin, allowing a new form of safe acrobatics in the movies.
A Attila T. Áfra for the creation of Intel Open Image Denoise, and Timo Aila for his pioneering work in Nvidia applying networks in U A Deneising.
Open Image Denoise is an open source library that provides an elegant API and runs in various hardware, leading to a wide adoption of the industry. Its central technology is provided by the widely adopted UTnet architecture that improves efficiency and retains details, which increases the quality of CG images throughout the industry.
To mark Noel to adapt and improve the safety and reliability of the six -degree six degrees movement of six degrees for the use of films.
The NACMO of modular movement bases allows filmmakers to dynamically control simulated actions, providing precise movements, improving special effects and enriching visual experience for the public worldwide.
To hold the development of the sensor analysis and stabilization software, for Bei Shimen for electrical engineering, and for Zhao Yanchong for the mechanical design and engineering of the Cardán Ronin 2 system.
Using the stabilization of three axes through multiple sensors, DJI Ronin 2 has achieved wide adoption. It is controllable from a diverse set of input devices, which allows filmmakers to create complex and dynamic camera movements.
A Tabb Firchau for Conception and Development, John Ellison and Steve Webb for the attitude control system, David Bloomfield for the design of the engine and Shane Colton for the design of the Gimbals Mōvi motor controllers system.
The introduction of Freefly Systems of the stabilized hand stabilized provides a single person or collaborative remote camera operation with several controllers, allowing previously difficult shots without stabilized heads with wrists or cranes.
Engineering and Engineering Awards
To Jayson Dumeigo for the development of action factory hydrogels.
Action factory hydrogels are designed to allow longer burns to higher temperatures with fast response times, which increases the safety and efficiency of the performance of the fire acrobatics.
To Thijs Vogels, Fabrice Rousselle, David Adler, Gerhard Röthlin and Mark Meyer for the creation of the ML Denoiser of Disney.
This sophisticated Denoiser automatic learning presents an innovative convolutional network that predicts the core and temporal stability. It has been adopted far beyond its original animation domain and is an essential tool to create computer generated images in feature films.
To Nir Averbuch, Yair Chuchem and Dan Raviv for the concept, design and development of the Auto Align Post 2.
Sound Radix's car 2 allows the perfect combination of multiple microphones in motion during the postproduction of the film, eliminating the distortion of the phase, saving a significant time on manual alignment methods and raising the quality of reproduction of the dialogue recorded in The set.
A Curt Schaller for the concept, design and development of the Trinity 2 system, and Dr. Roman Foltyn for the software and hardware design of its motorized stabilized head.
The Arri Trinity 2 is a system used by the body that combines a traditional inertial camera stabilization system with Electronic Cardán technology, which allows the freedom of movement of the unprecedented chamber to acquire shots with multiple transitions that otherwise do not They can get.
A Steve Wagner for the initial concept and software, Garrett Brown for design, and Jerry Holway and Robert Orf for the engineering of the Volt Steadicam stabilization system.
The Tiffen Steadicam volt revolutionizes inertial stabilization with its advanced motorized design of two axles, creating artificial inertia and simulated friction while providing adjustable touch feedback. Different modes allow the operator to alter the physical sensation of the platform. The VOLT allows filmmakers to achieve dynamic shots with a more complex camera movement while maintaining a stable roll axis.
For Dave Freeth for the design, engineering and development of the stabilization system of the three -axis motorized chamber.
The compact size and live adjustment of the operational parameters of these devices facilitate the subtle and dynamic chamber that is approaching the actors, and in faster rooms than possible. Its low latency allows instinctive operation, either controlled by a single operator or remotely.
The ceremony for the delivery of scientific and technical awards will take place on Tuesday, April 29 at the Academy Museum Museum. The main television ceremony of the Oscar will take place on March 2. A technical award will be presented during the televised program: a merit prize of the Academy for “all the people who have developed and supported subtitles technology, whether open or closed, for the film.”