Academy Award Winners!

In February 1999, Michael Sorensen, Richard Alexander, and Donald Trumbull were honored with a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for both the ZEBRA and GAZELLE motion control systems. The Academy honored the team for "Sorensen Design International's contribution to the advancement of the state-of-the-art of real time motion control".

SDI systems have been used in the production of feature  length films and television commercials some of which are shown below.

FEATURE FILM PRODUCTION CREDITS

Armageddon Touchstone Pictures

Astronaut's Wife Fox Pictures

Batman & Robin Warner Brothers

Blade Juno Pix, New Line Cinema

Blast From The Past Sony Imageworks

Contact Sony Imageworks

Dante's Peak Digital Domain

Daylight Universal Pictures

Day Of The Jackal Paramount, Illusion Art

Deep Blue Sea Deep Blue Productions, Warner Brothers

Dinosaur Disney Company

Eaters Of The Dead Disney Company

End Of Days Lucasfilms, Inc., Universal Pictures

Face Off 20th Century Fox

Fantasia 2000 Fox Pictures

Flubber Disney Company

From The Earth To The Moon HBO, Go Flight

Lethal Weapon 4 Warner Brothers

Mars Attacks Warner Brothers

Mission Impossible II Paramount Pictures

Mighty Joe Young

Psycho Illusion Arts

Soldier Warner Brothers

Star Trek Fox Pictures, Blue Sky

Star Trek: First Contact Universal Pictures, Illusion Arts

Star Trek World Tour Paramount Pictures

Storm Of The Century Rainfall Productions

Stuart Little Columbia Pictures

The Fight Club Fox Pictures

The Game DDF Films, Propaganda Films

The Mystery Men Universal Pictures

The Shining VIFX

The Sphere Warner Brothers

The Thirteenth Viking Disney Company, Elk Bay

Titanic Digital Domain

U.S. Marshalls Warner Brothers

Vegas Vacation Warner Digital

Volcano 20th Century Fox

Wild, Wild West Warner Brothers

 

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION CREDITS

Boston Market "Football Guard-Carver Combo" Good Stuff Productions

Chrysler Jeep Cherokee/Grand Cherokee Flying Tiger Films

CNP "L'Arbre" Objectif International, Quad Productions

"Dandy Warholes" Greenwater Pictures

409 Carpet Cleaner Michael Shrom & Company

Honda Odyssey "Even So It Is One Happy Family" Sony Commercials

Intel Propaganda Pictures

Mazda GMS Productions

Mazda M Company

Mervyn's Dublin Productions

Mystic Cliffs Wine @radical.media

Samsung Hi-Definition TV Ritts/Hayden

Seiko Watch "Kinetic" GMS Productions

Suzuki Bedford Falls

Taco Bell "South of the Border" Propaganda Films

Toyota "Cresta" Rainmaker Digital

Toyota Tercel Bedford Falls

Visa Flying Tiger Films

Whirlpool "Accubake" Lopes Picture Company

Zyrtec A Banda Part, Flying