Awards & Winners

Steve LaVietes

Steve LaVietes received the 2012 Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement.

Awards by Steve LaVietes

Check all the awards nominated and won by Steve LaVietes.

2012


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(For the creation of the Katana computer graphics scene management and lighting software at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Katana's unique design, featuring a deferred evaluation procedural node-graph, provides a highly efficient lighting and rendering workflow. It allows artists to non-destructively edit scenes too complex to fit into computer memory, at scales ranging from a single object up to an entire detailed city.)