February 2, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 

17 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS TO BE HONORED WITH ACADEMY AWARDS®

Nia DaCosta to host Scientific and Technical Awards virtual presentation on Saturday, February 13
 

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today
that 17 scientific and technical achievements represented by 55 individual award recipients, as
well as two companies, will be honored in a virtual Scientific and Technical Awards presentation
on Saturday, February 13, 2021. Hosted by filmmaker Nia DaCosta (“Little Woods”), the show
will be available on the Oscars® website starting at 1 p.m. PT.

To Jeff Bloom, Guy McNally and Nick Rose for the original concept and engineering of the Wordfit System for automatic ADR synchronization, and to John Ellwood and Jonathan Newland for the engineering and development of VocALign and Revoice Pro.

Wordfit revolutionized the process of post sync ADR by eliminating the need for manual editing to perfect lip sync. VocALign and Revoice Pro are software tools that together give sound editors unprecedented control over the final performance in replaced dialog. In use for many years, these technologies continue their predominance in the creation and seamless integration of replacement dialog tracks in motion pictures.