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Academy to honor design engineer

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Takuo Miyagishima, a design engineer at Panavision, will receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He will be the 18th recipient of the award, which was established in 1981 to recognize what the academy describes as people “whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry.â€

Miyagishima, who has been working at Panavision since 1955, is credited by the academy with helping develop and design innovative technologies in cinematography.

The award will be presented at the academy’s scientific and technical awards dinner Feb. 12.

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