Golden Compass wins an Academy Award

Although this event isn't much of a trip, it's still something that should probably be documented. On February 24th, 2008 the movie The Golden Compass won an Academy Award for best visual effects in a motion picture. I had been working on The Golden Compass since November of 2006, and was absolutely shocked that we had won.

The next day, our VFX Supervisor Bill Westenhoffer brough the Oscar back to Rhythm & Hues to celebrate our win.

Here is Bill cheering and raising the Oscar up in the air, after John Hughes gave a short speech on his appreciation of the involvement of everyone in the studio.

Me, Bill, and the Oscar.

The line of R&H'ers in line take pictures with Bill and the Oscar.

I guess now I get to put "Academy Award winning coordinator" on my resume, right?

-Kim
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