Today we have our fingers crossed for the Mad Max Fury Road team, who have a record ten nominations for the 2016 Academy Awards®, including Ben Osmo who is one of the team nominated for Sound Editing. Ben uses DPA Microphones for his work, and we are proud to support him in his past and future endeavours.
The Amber Technology portfolio includes Emmy®, Grammy® and Academy Award® winning brands and products. Here's six of the highlights from the brands we represent in Australia:
1. ELECTRO-VOICE Back in 1963, Electro-Voice won an Academy Award® for the development of the Model 642 Cardiline ultra-directional shotgun microphone. It was the first time since 1941 an award for technical achievement was given for microphone design, and reflects the innovative quality of the microphone for the times. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extremely careful in bestowing such awards because of the potential commercial impact, and only does so when the product has proven its value to the motion-imaging industry.
2. AVID: The use of Avid's technology spans many different media across the world, from prestigious, award-winning live productions to music and movies. Avid has earned hundreds of awards including two Oscars®, a Grammy® and twelve Emmys®. In 2016 an overwhelming number of Grammy® nominated projects were created using the industry-standard digital audio software, Avid Pro Tools®, including every nomination for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, and Best Pop Vocal Album.
Grammy® Award winners using Avid’s award-winning suite of creative tools included Album of the Year 1989 by Taylor Swift, Record of the Year Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, Song of the Year/Best Pop Solo Performance Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness (Best Urban Contemporary Album), Alabama Shakes’ Don’t Wanna Fight (Best Rock Song and Performance), and Kendrick Lamar’s Alright (Best Rap Performance).
The full list of winners using Avid Artist Suite can be found here.
3. DOLBY ATMOS®: At the 2015 Academy Awards®, Dolby® Laboratories executive David W. Gray received the prestigious Gordon E. Sawyer Award, which is presented to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry.” During his career, David W. Gray has been involved with the design, refinement and implementation of groundbreaking cinema sound technologies, including stereo optical soundtracks, digital sound on film and Dolby Atmos®. Consumers can now enjoy the Dolby Atmos® technology experience at home with Onkyo Atmos in their own home cinema.
4. NEXIDIA: A leading developer of dialogue and audio analysis products and technologies, Nexidia were honored in 2015 by with an Emmy® for Phonetic Indexing and Timing. The award recognises the patented speech technology behind Nexidia Dialogue Search™products, which focus on search, script-based editing, and caption verification and alignment. This technology has helped to streamline workflows in Broadcast, Media and Entertainment.
5. DIGITAL PROJECTION: In 1998 Digital Projection became the only projector manufacturer to win an Emmy® Award, presented for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for the creation of the Power Displays projector, an innovative illumination, optical/signal processing system that produces brilliant large-screen images with more than one billion colors, creating smooth, film-like large-screen images.
At the centre of the Power Display is the Digital Micromirror Devices (DMD), invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck (Texas Instruments). Made up of a rectangular array of microscopic hinged mirrors, the DMD allows light to be modulated more accurately than is possible when using alternate technology. In 2014 Dr Hornbeck was awarded an Academy Award® of Merit for the invention of digital micromirror technology as used in DLP Cinema projection.
6. OPTOMA: The 2014 Academy Award® winning TI DLP® DMD display technology is also incorporated in Optoma projectors.
Best wishes to all those nominated in the 2016 Academy Awards®.
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