Design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System.
Recipients: Steve Sullivan, Max Chen

Design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating-point, high dynamic range image files.
Recipient: Florian Kainz

Subsurface scattering techniques.
Recipient: Christophe Hery of ILM, Ken McGaugh and Joe Letteri

for their groundbreaking implementations of practical methods for rendering skin and other translucent materials using subsurface scattering techniques.

Development of the ILM Creature Dynamics System.
Recipient: Cary Phillips and Sebastian Marino

This system makes hair, clothing, skin, flesh and muscle simulation both directable and integrated within a character animation and rigging environment.

Development of the ILM Motion and Structure Recovery System (MARS.)
Recipient: Dr. Steve Sullivan and Eric Schafer.

The MARS system provides analysis of camera motion and object motion, and their dimensions. It employs a rich set of user-interface tools and sophisticated algorithms.

Design and development of the "Caricature" Animation Software System at Industrial Light & Magic.
Recipient: Cary Phillips.

Pioneering work in motion-controlled, silent camera dollies.
Recipients: Mike MacKenzie, Mike Bolles, Udo Pampel and Joseph Fulmer of Industrial Light & Magic.

Creation and Development of the Direct Input Device.
Recipients: Brian Knep, Thomas Williams.

Development of a system to create and control computer-generated fur and hair in motion pictures.
Recipients: Jeffrey Yost, Christian Rouet, David Benson, Florian Kainz.

Development of the Viewpaint 3D Paint System for film production work.
Recipients: John Schlag, Brian Knep, Zoran Kacic-Alesic and Thomas Williams.

Pioneering efforts in the creation of the ILM digital film compositing system.
Recipients: Douglas Smythe, Lincoln Hu, Douglas S. Kay and Industrial Light & Magic.

Pioneering work in the field of film input scanning.
Recipient: Scott Squires.

Development work on a linear array CCD (Charge Coupled Device) film input scanning system.
Recipients: Lincoln Hu and Michael MacKenzie.

Concept and development of the digital motion picture retouching system for removing visible rigging and dirt/damage artifacts from original motion picture imagery.
Recipients: Douglas Smythe, George Joblove.

Development and the first implementation in feature motion pictures of the "Morf" system for digital metamorphosis of high resolution images.
Recipients: Douglas Smythe and the Computer Graphics Department of Industrial Light & Magic.

Development of a wire rig model support mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects.
Recipient: Tadeuz Krzanowski.

Engineering of the Empire motion picture camera system.
Recipients: Richard Edlund and Industrial Light & Magic.

Concept and engineering of a beam-splitter optical composite motion picture printer.
Recipients: Richard Edlund and Industrial Light & Magic.

Development of a motion picture figure mover for animation photography.
Recipients: Dennis Muren and Stuart Ziff.