SMPTE announces 2021 honourees

The DTGs Richard Lindsay-Davies and Deluxes Richard Welsh are among this years Fellows

By Jenny Priestley

Published: September 10, 2021

The DTG's Richard Lindsay-Davies and Deluxe's Richard Welsh are among this year's Fellows

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SMPTE has announced the list of honourees who will be feted at the organisation's awards gala in November.

As well as awards celebrating individual honourees, the event also welcomes 17 new SMPTE Fellows, including the DTG's Richard Lindsay-Davies and Deluxe's Richard Welsh. This honour is conferred on individuals who have, through their proficiency and contributions to the motion-picture, television, or related industries, attained an outstanding rank among engineers or executives in media and entertainment.

SMPTE will present the 2021 Progress Medal, its most prestigious award, to Wendy Aylsworth and Girish Balakrishnan. The medal recognises outstanding technical contributions to the progress of the engineering phases of the motion-picture, television or motion-imaging industries.

Robert A. Dischert (1929-1991) will be recognised posthumously with the Camera Origination and Imaging Medal, which celebrates significant technical achievement related to inventions or advances in imaging technology, including sensors and capture devices.

Youngkwon Lim will receive the David Sarnoff Medal, sponsored by SRI International. The medal recognises outstanding contributions to the development of new techniques or equipment that have improved the engineering phases of television technology, including large-venue presentations.

Other honourees include:

Huw Davies, Excellence in Education Medal, sponsored by William C. Miller and Ellen Sontag-Miller

Nick Wells, Digital Processing Medal

Linda Tadic, the James A. Lindner Archival Technology Media, sponsored by James A. Lindner

Moxion, the Workflow Systems Medal, sponsored by Leon D. Silverman

Harald Brendel, the Natalie M and Herbert T. Kalmus Medal, recognising outstanding contributions to the highest standards of quality and innovation in motion-picture production, postproduction and distribution service

Anustup Choudhry, Jaclyn Pytlarz and Scott Daly, the Journal Award presented to authors of the most outstanding paper originally published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal

Ava DuVernay, Anne Jacobsen, Franklin Leonard, Kohji Mitani and Jayshree Ullal, recognised with the Presidential Proclamation

Pierre-Anthony Lemieux, the Excellence in Standards Award

Hideki Ohtaka, Thomas Heritage and John Mailhot, standards participants

Tony Meerakker, Fran ois Bourdua, and Daniel Gu vi, the Citation for Outstanding Service to the Society

Aaron DeMolder, the Student Paper Award

SMPTE student member Monica Brighton, the Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship

Among the other SMPTE Fellows who will be honoured are: Robert Brunelle. Dean C. Bullock, Tim Carroll, Andrew Cotton, Dagmar Driesnack, Joseph Goldstone, Sally Hattori, George H. Joblove, Wicky Man Hoi Law, Luann Linnebur, Jaclyn Pytlarz, David Reisner, David Ross, Yoshiaki Shishikui, and William Werner.

The SMPTE Awards Gala will take place virtually during the 2021 SMPTE Annual Technical Conference which runs from 9-18th November.

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