And the Oscar Goes To…

…Parag Havaldar! I generally have little interest in the Oscars and rarely watch it, but it sure would be cool to win one. The next best thing is to see a friend win one, so it was great to see that Parag, a colleague from my Nichimen Graphics days (we used to play basketball together!) won a Technical Achievement Oscar for his work on facial capture at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Leslie Mann stumbled through the intro, John Cho was cool (“Parag in the house!”) and Parag gave a really nice speech.