And the Oscar goes to . . .

Visual Effects. The Revenant, a Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan) Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer.

Scientific and Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award). To Jason Smith and Jeff White for the original design, and to Rachel Rose and Mike Jutan for the architecture and engineering, of the BlockParty procedural rigging system at Industrial Light & Magic. BlockParty streamlines the rigging process through a comprehensive connection framework, a novel graphical user interface, and volumetric rig transfer, which has enabled ILM to build richly detailed and unique creatures while greatly improving artist productivity.