Edmund M. Di Giulio, is the founder of and was president of Cinema Products Corporation when he received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award.

Perhaps best known for the work of his company, Cinema Products, and for the engineering of the Steadicam, Di Giulio chaired the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards Committee for five years, and was active on various subcommittees for many additional years.

Di Giulio received four Scientific andTechnical Awards, which he shares with several other people. In 1968, he received the Scientific and Engineering Award for the design and application of a conversion that makes available the reflex viewing system for motion picture cameras. In 1992, he received another Scientific and Engineering Award for the camera system design of the CP-65 Showscan Camera System for 65mm motion picture cinematography. In 1998, Di Giulio received a Technical Achievement Award for the design of the KeyKode Sync Reader. The next year, Di Giulio received the John A. Bonner Medal of commendation, awarded for “outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy.”

Di Giulio, who joined the Academy in 1966, has written several scientific papers, is a well-known lecturer and has appeared at many technical conferences and symposiums both in the United States and around the world. A fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), he holds more than a dozen patents in computer and cinema technology.