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In recognition of a lifetime of technical achievement, he was the 1986 recipient of the TAPPI PLC (now TAPPI PLACE) Division Technical Award and Sam Zwieg Prize.
The fantasy adventure, which is nominated for 11 Oscars, also won a technical award for its use of 3D special effects.
In scooping up the technical award categories at the Academy Awards, the film smashes the Australian record of three Oscars for The Piano in 1993.
While he has won a scientific and technical award and a medal of commendation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he has never won an Oscar.
This year's biggest snubs include Robert Redford, Tom Hanks and The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, which took home two technical award nominations, but none for the major prizes.
Dick Pope was honoured at Cannes with a technical award for his cinematography for bringing the paintings to life: the film is filled with Turneresque colour: rose, amber, palest blue… "It's interesting," Leigh says, "that this is the first full-length film we have made with a digital camera.
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One more surprise: who knew that (as Jessica Biel told us in her introduction to the technical award-winner) Jerry Lewis (who seemed sadly bowed by ill health last night) invented the video assist — the connection of a video camera and TV monitor to a movie camera, so that the director can watch the action while the cinematographer is at the eyepiece — a set-up which is now standard on movies?
(No documentaries. No shorts. No technical awards).
Meanwhile, the Academy hosted its science and technical awards, known affectionately as the nerd Oscars.
Technical awards were one of many ideas lifted from the Academy Awards.
It also won nine technical awards during a separate ceremony in Tampa on Friday.
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