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The Academy has picked fifteen films for the Visual Effects category. Out of the fifteen, ten will be chosen in early January, then five for the final nominations to be announced January 25.

Christopher Nolan's "Inception" dominated the 9th annual Visual Effects Society Awards winning the top prize of Outstanding Visual Effcts in a VFX-driven feature. The mind-bending film won all four categories that it was nominated for.

For this week's Film Short I'm posting some of the highlights from the demos at the Las Vegas IndieMeet held at the home of filmmakers Mike and Sheila Conway during this past Memorial Day Weekend.

While visiting the Panasonic booth at NAB, I had the chance to speak with Brad Wensley, a Senior Product Specialist at Quantel, who spoke with me about their grading and finishing system for HD, 2k, 4k and stereo3D called Pablo.

The Content Theater at NAB 2010 featured several interesting panels. Among them were back to back discussions with the technical teams of the 3D hit movies "Alice in Wonderland " and "How to Train Your Dragon ". The Alice in Wonderland: Turning Art Fantasy into Motion Picture Reality panel was on stage first and featured moderator Christina Giardina, journalist from The Hollywood Reporter; Executive Vice President of Visual Effects and Production for The Walt Disney Studios; Ken Ralston, the movie's multi Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor; stereographer Corey Turner and Tom Peitzman, co-producer/visual effects producer for the film.

The second part of The Twenty-First Century Camera Crew and How it Works, which was produced in Association with the International Cinematographers Guild, and proved to be one of the most interesting panels I attended. David Geffner, The Executive Editor of ICG Magazine moderated the panel made up of Lewis Rothenberg, Digital Imaging Technician, TNS Productions, Inc.; Andy Romanoff, Technical Marketing and Strategy Executive, Panavision; Steven Poster, President, ICG, Director of Photography, International Cinematographers Guild; Jason Clark, Producer, Ways & Means Productions; Rodney Charters, who spent nine years as the Director of Photography on the hit Fox Television show "24" and special speaker Gale Tattersall, DP from another Fox Television show "House". This may be the longest article I’ve written for this blog, but I believe is worth the read.

One of the most interesting panel discussions I attended last week at NAB was The Twenty-First Century Camera Crew and How it Works, which was produced in Association with the International Cinematographers Guild. David Geffner, The Executive Editor of ICG Magazine moderated the panel made up of Lewis Rothenberg, Digital Imaging Technician, TNS Productions, Inc.; Andy Romanoff, Technical Marketing and Strategy Executive, Panavision; Steven Poster, President, ICG, Director of Photography, International Cinematographers Guild; Jason Clark, Producer, Ways & Means Productions; and Rodney Charters, who spent nine years as the Director of Photography on the hit Fox Tevlevision show "24".