Published: 12:00 AM, 03 October 2016
Oscar winner Nafees Bin Zafar selected for new one
Nafees Bin Zafar
Nafees Bin Zafar, the first Bangladeshi to have won an Academy Award, has been selected to receive another one for his contribution to the movie industry. Nafees Bin Zafar (born 1978) is a Bangladeshi software engineer who received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award (OSCAR) in 2007 for his contribution to the development of the fluid simulation system for the movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: He is the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar. He is a great grandson of the famous late Bangladeshi poet Golam Mostofa and grand nephew of the famous Bangladeshi artist and puppeteer Mostofa Monowar. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that distributes the Academy Award issued a letter to the Bangladeshi-American tech wizard on January 8. The Academy Scientific & Technical Awards are often causally referred to as the "Sci-Tech Oscars."
According to the letter, Nafees and his colleagues are being given a Technical Achievement Award for their work in the Drop Destruction Toolkit, used to create visual effects in films like 2012. The ceremony was held in Los Angeles on February 7, 2015. He won his previous Academy Award in 2008, for his outstanding work on fluid dynamics, used in films like Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. Nafees is currently the director of research and development for DreamWorks in Shanghai, China. His previous filmography includes: Madagascar 3, Kung Fu Panda 2, Shrek Forever After, Flags of Our Fathers.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 21 scientific and technical achievements represented by 58 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards were presentated on Saturday, February 7, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. In addition, veteran sound engineer and Dolby Laboratories executive David W. Gray will receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award (an Oscar® statuette), presented "to an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry."
According to the letter, Nafees and his colleagues are being given a Technical Achievement Award for their work in the Drop Destruction Toolkit, used to create visual effects in films like 2012. The ceremony was held in Los Angeles on February 7, 2015. He won his previous Academy Award in 2008, for his outstanding work on fluid dynamics, used in films like Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. Nafees is currently the director of research and development for DreamWorks in Shanghai, China. His previous filmography includes: Madagascar 3, Kung Fu Panda 2, Shrek Forever After, Flags of Our Fathers.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 21 scientific and technical achievements represented by 58 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards were presentated on Saturday, February 7, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. In addition, veteran sound engineer and Dolby Laboratories executive David W. Gray will receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award (an Oscar® statuette), presented "to an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry."
