And the Oscar goes to . . .

Visual Effects. Death Becomes Her, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe and Tom Woodruff, Jr.

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Tom Brigham for the original concept and pioneering work; and Douglas Smythe and the Computer Graphics Department of Industrial Light & Magic for development and the first implementation in feature motion pictures of the “MORF” system for digital metamorphosis of high resolution images.

Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering Award). To Mark Leather, Les Dittert, Douglas Smythe and George Joblove for the concept and development of the Digital Motion Picture Retouching System for removing visible rigging and dirt/damage artifacts from original motion picture imagery.

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Douglas Smythe, Lincoln Hu, Douglas S. Kay and Industrial Light and Magic for their pioneering efforts in the creation of the ILM Digital Film Compositing System.