The Lumiere Awards presented by the Advanced Imaging Society has come to represent the best and most passionate practitioners of technical film and television artistry in categories such as Best 2D To 3D Conversion, Best Achievement in 8K Production, Best Use Of High Dynamic Range and Best Use Of AR/VR. The 13th Annual installment took place at the Beverly Hills Hotel this weekend and, according to Deadline, “more than one presenter” affectionately could be found referring to the ceremony as “The Geeks Oscars.”

Sporting their own golden statuettes, the Lumiere Awards hosts Hollywood household names alongside the geeks (ahem, technical artists), with voting members coming from across the board in the industry and also The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Producer and directors Jon Landau, Guillermo del Toro and Baz Luhrmann in attendance this year, while their coveted films competed for the major awards of the evening. Director del Toro’s Pinocchio won for Best Feature Film-Animation while producer Jon Landau’s Avatar: The Way of Water secured Best Feature Film – Live Action. Luhrmann’s Elvis swept the evening with three awards including the one for Best Motion Picture – Musical. Visual effects supervisors Eric Saindon and Richie Baneham joined Landau to accept the Avatar award.

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Actors Among the Geeks

Stan Winston with his creations from the Terminator series
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Joining them was Good Night Oppy, the documentary about a much-loved Mars Exploration Rover, which garnered the year’s Best Film award in Documentary. Other winners recognised for their technological brilliance this year included Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Batman, Lightyear, and Strange Things. Top Gun: Maverick, meanwhile, won two for Best Scene or Sequence in a Feature Film and Best Song. Jerry Bruckheimer was reportedly in attendance to accept the awards. James Cameron, meanwhile, sent a video message from New Zealand to accept his film's Voices for the Earth Award for environmentally-focused filmmaking.

The Gene Kelly Visionary Award and Harold Lloyd Award went to Babylon and Elvis respectively for their homages to talkie era dance and groundbreaking film directing respectively. Lloyd was a pioneering silent era actor, comedian, stuntman and filmmaker, while Kelly was a decorated actor, dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. The awards event was mainly for technical artists, producers and directors, however Austin Butler was in attendance to help present the Harold Lloyd Award to Luhrmann (Luhrmann emphasized the contribution of Mandy Walker, who recently became the third woman in Oscar history to be nominated for cinematography). Tom Cruise has attended in the past to thank the geeks that make his blockbuster movies.

Adobe, Microsoft, and Weta FX were among those companies widely recognized across the overall twenty-three awards given out to creative teams working in entertainment technology. A full list of winners is available at Variety.