Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award
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The Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award is a Primetime Emmy
engineering award given to honor companies who have significantly affected the state of television and broadcast engineering over a long period of time. The award is given by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) at the Engineering Awards ceremony held a few weeks before the main Primetime Emmy award ceremony. The award originated in 2003 as a means to recognize Panavision
's years of contribution to the film and television industries. Unlike most other Emmy awards, it is not awarded every year.
The award is named after the inventor of electronic television
, Philo Farnsworth
.
Even though the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
(NATAS) has a separate Technology & Engineering Emmy Award
category, the Philo T. Farnsworth award is listed as a part of the Los Angeles
based ATAS Primetime Emmy award repertoire.
Primetime Emmy Award
The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming...
engineering award given to honor companies who have significantly affected the state of television and broadcast engineering over a long period of time. The award is given by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) at the Engineering Awards ceremony held a few weeks before the main Primetime Emmy award ceremony. The award originated in 2003 as a means to recognize Panavision
Panavision
Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses during the widescreen boom in the 1950s, Panavision expanded its product...
's years of contribution to the film and television industries. Unlike most other Emmy awards, it is not awarded every year.
The award is named after the inventor of electronic television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, Philo Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device , the "image...
.
Even though the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences or NATAS was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television. Headquartered in New York, NATAS's membership is national and the organization has local chapters around the country....
(NATAS) has a separate Technology & Engineering Emmy Award
Technology & Engineering Emmy Award
A Technology and Engineering Emmy Award is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in technical or engineering development...
category, the Philo T. Farnsworth award is listed as a part of the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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based ATAS Primetime Emmy award repertoire.
Past winners
- 2003 - PanavisionPanavisionPanavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses during the widescreen boom in the 1950s, Panavision expanded its product...
- Advancement of cameras, lenses, lighting, video assist, cranes, specialty camera items and grip equipment. - 2004 - Chyron CorporationChyron CorporationThe Chyron Corporation is a Melville, N.Y.-based company that develops products and services for digital broadcast graphics creation. The company’s solutions, which include the AXIS Graphics online content creation software and order management system and a range of on-air graphics systems, clip...
- Invention and development of the character generator. - 2008 - Evertz Technologies Limited - Video and audio infrastructure equipment for production, post-production, broadcast and IPTV.
- 2009 - NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
for television broadcasts of the Apollo 11Apollo 11In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...
lunar landing. - 2010 - Shared by Desilu & DigidesignDigidesignAvid Audio is an American digital audio technology company. It was founded in 1984 by Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks. The company began as a project to raise money for the founders' band, selling EPROM chips for drum machines. It is a subsidiary of Avid Technology, and during 2010 the Digidesign...