Digidesign to receive Oscar for Pro Tools System

Avid Technology has announced that its audio division, Digidesign, will receive an Academy Award of Merit (Oscar statuette) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The statuette, which will be presented at the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards on February 14, 2004, will recognise Digidesign for the design, development, and implementation of the Pro Tools digital audio workstation, which is renowned as the standard for creating and editing motion picture soundtracks.
“Winning an Oscar for Pro Tools is an incredible honour for us,” said David Lebolt, Avid vice president and Digidesign general manager. “We’ve come this far thanks to the amazing dedication and hard work of our entire staff and third-party developers, and the incredibly valuable input we’ve received from the post community.
"It feels extremely gratifying to everyone on the Digidesign and Avid team to see the Academy recognise how Pro Tools has profoundly changed the creative process for audio postproduction, allowing increasingly innovative and inventive use of sound in motion pictures.
"This recognition further demonstrates how committed we are to making the best possible tools for enabling and inspiring the creative audio artist.”
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