Boyle scoops top award for costume design
The award was launched by Stephen Rea and presented to Oscar nominee Consolata Boyle in a ceremony at Brooks Hotel, in Dublin last evening.
The awards are named after Dublin’s first cinema, The Volta, which was one of the many entrepreneurial investments of the adventurous James Joyce more than 100 years ago.
In other awards, Irish movie fans wowed by Helen Mirren’s performance as the Queen nominated her for a prestigious accolade. The Irish Film and Television Awards are expected to honour her performance in ‘The Queen’.
The awards ceremony takes place tonight at the RDS in Dublin.
A lecturer at Trinity College Dublin will be awarded an Oscar this weekend for his visual effects software used in a string of Hollywood blockbusters.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science ceremony takes place in Los Angeles on Saturday, two weeks ahead of the glitzy film awards.
The Scientific and Technical Awards hosted by actress Maggie Gyllenhaal are presented by the Academy for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts and sciences of motion pictures.
Dr Anil Kokaram, a lecturer at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, worked as a consultant with the Britain-based software developer, the Foundry.
The lecturer will receive the award along with three members of the Foundry software development team — Dr Bill Collis, Simon Robinson and Ben Kent.
“I am delighted to have won this award, especially given the stringent examination process employed by the Academy in selecting the winners. It involved six months of deliberation and assessment by two panels made up of both academics and members of the film industry,” Dr Kokaram said.
The image-processing software was used on feature films including Casino Royale, X-Men, The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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