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Florian Kainz

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Florian Kainz

Person·1996–2013

Nominated at 4 ceremonies, most recently the 86th Academy Awards (2013).

Nominations 4

Wins 4

Span 1996–2013

Films 0

Oscar history IMDb page

4Nominations

4Wins

1Categories

4Ceremonies

0Films

1996–2013Span

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Oscar History

Every nomination and win on record for Florian Kainz, by ceremony.

86th Academy Awards

2013

Scientific And Technical Award (technical Achievement Award)

Film: —

Detail: Digital Imaging Technology

Citation: To FLORIAN KAINZ, JEFFERY YOST, PHILIP HUBBARD and JIM HOURIHAN for the architecture and development of the Zeno application framework.

Note: For more than a decade, Zeno's flexible and robust design has allowed the creation of a broad range of Academy Award-winning visual effects toolsets at ILM.

Winner

83rd Academy Awards

2010

Scientific And Technical Award (technical Achievement Award)

Film: —

Detail: Digital Imaging Technology

Citation: To FLORIAN KAINZ for the design and development of the robust, highly scalable distributed architecture of the ObaQ render queue management system.

Note: ObaQ has scaled from managing a few hundred processors in 1997 to many thousands today, with minimal changes to the original design.

Winner

79th Academy Awards

2006

Scientific And Technical Award (technical Achievement Award)

Film: —

Detail: Digital Imaging Technology

Citation: To FLORIAN KAINZ for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating point, high dynamic range image files.

Note: Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images.

Winner

69th Academy Awards

1996

Scientific And Technical Award (technical Achievement Award)

Film: —

Detail: Special Photographic

Citation: To JEFFERY YOST, CHRISTIAN ROUET, DAVID BENSON and FLORIAN KAINZ for the development of a system to create and control computer generated fur and hair in motion pictures.

Winner

The Career Arc

Florian Kainz at the Oscars, 1996 to 2013: each nomination above its year, the 4 wins in gold. Select any nomination to open its full race.

4 nominations 4 wins

Ledger Crossroads

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Ceremonies

86th Academy Awards (2013) 1 nomination / 1 win 83rd Academy Awards (2010) 1 nomination / 1 win 79th Academy Awards (2006) 1 nomination / 1 win 69th Academy Awards (1996) 1 nomination / 1 win