Digital Does Well at Oscar Time

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 100% shot on the Thomson Viper, and Slumdog Millionaire, 65% shot on the SI 2K camera, are both in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars after the nominations were announced today.

Both the film's DPs were also nominated. Anthony Dod Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire and Claudio Miranda for Benjamin Button.
Anthony was only going to use the SI 2k camera for around 35% of the movie, ostensibly the slums shots where he had rigged the camera to use it on the move but enjoyed the quality so much he ended up using more. The remainder of the film was Super 35mm.

Claudio Miranda used the two Vipers in filmstream mode mainly because of the huge number of VFX that were needed for the movie - the result as many agree is a stunning one.

Congratulations to both films and DPs.