The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the recipients of the 75th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards. The ceremony will take place in partnership with the NAB New York media & technology convention as part of their convention in New York, October 2024, at the Javits Center.
“The Technology & Engineering Emmy Award was the first Emmy Award issued in 1949 and it laid the groundwork for all the other Emmys to come,” said Adam Sharp, CEO & President, NATAS. “We are extremely happy about honoring these prestigious individuals and companies, together with NAB, where the intersection of innovation, technology and excitement in the future of television can be found.”
"As we commemorate 75 years of this prestigious award, this year's winners join a legacy of visionaries who use technology to shape the future of television. Congratulations to all!" said Dina Weisberger, Co-Chair, NATAS Technology Achievement Committee.
“As we honor the diamond class of the technology Emmys, this class typifies the caliber of innovation we have been able to enjoy for the last 75 years. Congratulations to all the winners." said Joe Inzerillo, Co-Chair, NATAS Technology Achievement Committee.
The Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards are awarded to a living individual, a company, or a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies that either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected television.
A Committee of highly qualified engineers working in television considers technical developments in the industry and determines which, if any, merit an award.
The individuals and companies that will be honored at the event follow.
2024 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award Honorees
Pioneering Development of Inexpensive Video Technology for Animation
Winners: Lyon Lamb (Bruce Lyon and John Lamb)
Large Scale Deployment of Smart TV Operating Systems
Winners: Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, Panasonic
Creation and Implementation of HDR Static LUT, Single-Stream Live Production
Winners: BBC and NBC
Pioneering Technologies Enabling High Performance Communications Over Cable TV Systems
Winners: Broadcom, General Instrument (CommScope)
Winners: LANcity (CommScope)
Winners: 3COM (HP)
Pioneering Development of Manifest-based Playout for FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television)
Winners: Amagi
Winners: Pluto TV
Winners: Turner
Targeted Ad Messages Delivered Across Paused Media
Winners: DirecTV
Pioneering Development of IP Address Geolocation Technologies to Protect Content Rights
Winners: MLB
Winners: Quova
Development of Stream Switching Technology between Satellite Broadcast and Internet to Improve Signal Reliability
Winners: DirecTV
Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud
Winners: Netint
Winners: AMD
Winners:Google
Winners: Meta
Spectrum Auction Design
Winners: FCC and Auctionomics
TV Pioneers – Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT)
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Boris Lvovich Rosing
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
TV Pioneers – Development of lighting, ventilation, and lens-coating technologies
Hertha Ayrton
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this — and those many "Babadook" memes — unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More