Multiple Full Sail Grads Work on Oscar-Winning Films
Full Sail graduates continue to garner success at the entertainment industry's most prestigious awards show.
(PRWEB) March 8, 2005 -- At the 77th Annual Academy Awards, multiple Full
Sail graduates enjoyed the distinction of seeing their work on Oscar-winning
films recognized on the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, February 27th. This
caps a productive decade for Full Sail’s graduates, as five of the past ten Best
Picture honorees have featured the talents of Full Sail grads in production,
including this year’s winner, Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby.
This
year featured nine graduates on projects receiving Oscar accolades, while
Recording Arts grad Gary Rizzo was personally nominated for his work as a sound
re-recording mixer on this year’s Oscar-winning Animated Feature Film, The
Incredibles. Other Full Sail grads that were a part of The Incredibles team –
which also won in the Sound Editing slot – include digital artist Jeremy
Vickery, sequence modeling lead Kristifir Klein, assistant sound editor Dee
Selby, and sound mix technicians Juan Peralta and Jurgen
Scharpf.
Scharpf’s work as a sound mix technician is also featured on
Million Dollar Baby, which, in addition to its Best Picture win, took home wins
for two of its stars – Hillary Swank for Actress in a Leading Role and Morgan
Freeman for Actor in a Supporting Role. Clint Eastwood, the director and one of
the producers of the film, was also recognized with his second Oscar in the
Directing category.
Spider-Man 2’s outstanding effects brought the summer
blockbuster an Oscar win in the Visual Effects category; Full Sail Digital Media
grads Culley Bunker (compositor) and Michael Comly (lighting technical director
both worked on the film. Bill Galbreath, Full Sail’s Program Manager for the
Digital Media program, says that watching the success of these talented grads is
part of the joy of working at Full Sail. “The fact that our grads are involved
with successful commercial projects and that those projects have been recognized
by the industry as being of the highest quality makes us proud to be associated
with them.”
Full Sail would like to extend our congratulations to all of
the alumni who put their best efforts into this year’s Oscar-winning films, and
wish continued success to those working hard to create the films of the
future.
Full Sail Real World Education is an entertainment media college
located in Winter Park, Florida. There are over 4,700 full-time students
enrolled in Full Sail degree programs, which include Computer Animation, Digital
Media, Entertainment Business, Film, Game Design & Development, Recording
Arts, and Show Production & Touring. For more details, call 1.800.226.7625,
or visit www.fullsail.com.
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