Gordon E. Sawyer Award

	Edmund M. Di Giulio recipient of the Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Edmund M. Di Giulio, one of the industry's foremost engineering minds, was voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Award, an Oscar statuette, was presented at the Scientific and Technical Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 2, 2002 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Established in 1981, the Sawyer Award, an Oscar statuette is "presented to an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." Di Giulio is the 16th recipient.

Perhaps best known for his part in the engineering and development of the Steadicam, Di Giulio has been active on various Academy subcommittees for many years and chaired the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards Committee for five years.

"In my opinion, Ed is something of an engineering statesman, and someone one could always call on for advice and guidance," said Richard Edlund, current chair of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. "We could think of no one who more deserves the Sawyer Award than he does."

To this point in his career, Di Giulio has received four Sci-Tech Awards, which he shares with several other people. While at Mitchell Camera Corporation in the early sixties, he developed the company's first reflex camera - the Mark II - and in 1968, he received the Scientific and Engineering Award for the important design and application of a conversion that made it possible to change over most of the industry's existing sound cameras to reflex viewing. 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 has authored a number of influential scientific papers and is a well-known lecturer who has appeared at technical conferences and symposia both in the United States and around the world. An Academy member since 1966, Di Giulio is also fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and holds more than a dozen patents in computer and cinema technology.