The International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society honours 23 movies for ‘distinguished achievement’ at the 3D Creative Arts Awards. The event was held at the Warner Bros. Studios.
Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Studios/Stereo D) won for best Live Action 3D Feature while Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Prime Focus World/Weinstein) won for Stereography – Live Action. 300: Rise of an Empire (Warner Bros./Gener8) won for best 2D to 3D Conversion and X-Men: Days of Future Past (20th Century Fox/Stereo D) was awarded best 3D Sequence/Scene of the Year.
The Lego Movie (Warner Bros.) was honored for Best Animated 3D Feature and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DreamWorks Animation) was awarded a Lumiere for best Stereography – Animation.
Best 3D Independent Feature was awarded to The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (Tapioca Films/Weinstein Company). Feast (Walt Disney Animation Studios) was honored as this year’s best Animated-Short Movie.
Academy Award Nominee and French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet received the Society’s Harold Lloyd Filmmaker Award, which was presented by Suzanne Lloyd, chairman of Harold Lloyd Entertainment and Society chairman Mike DeValue of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Sky, Atlantic Productions and David Attenborough were honored with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for education and distinguished achievement in 3D storytelling.
“From Hollywood blockbusters to World War II documentaries to live opera broadcasts, we have never before seen 3D used to excite audiences at this level and quality,” said Society president Jim Chabin. “Directors and creative teams are pushing the emotional and technical capabilities of 3D to new heights, from China, Japan, the UK, throughout the EU, Russia, and India,” he added. “3D is now a standard, powerful creative tool and this bodes well for creative teams and 3D box office revenues in 2015.”
“This year saw 4K production enter the marketplace with Netflix’s House of Cards, and concert productions from Japan,” said Society Awards chairman Buzz Hays. “With emerging high dynamic range, high frame rate technologies and 4K TV’s coming to market, content creators have incredible new platforms on which to tell their stories,” he added. “From live action to animated, to concert movies and documentaries, we saw a vigorous worldwide production community at its best.”
In the category of best 3D Music Entertainment Feature, rock band Guns N’ Roses won for its 3D concert movie Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Democracy (Rock Fuel Media). Best 3D Commercial was awarded to World of Warcraft (CowProd). Japanese film Stand By Me Doraemon (Shirogumi, Inc.) won a jury prize in the category of International Animated Feature. The award for best 4K Entertainment went to House of Cards 4K-Season 2 (Netflix). The best 4K Advertising Lumiere went to Liberación, (Panasonic).
