Editing Edwin Catmull (section)

==Awards and honors==
In 1993, Catmull received his first [[Academy Scientific and Technical Award]] from the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] "for the development of [[PhotoRealistic RenderMan]] software which produces images used in motion pictures from 3D computer descriptions of shape and appearance". He shared this award with [[Thomas K. Porter|Tom Porter]]. In 1995, he was inducted as a Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]]. Again in 1996, he received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award "for pioneering inventions in Digital Image Compositing".<ref name="LasseterSpecial">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/02/01/STYLE8516.dtl|title=Three Pixar execs get special Oscars|date=February 1, 1996|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=March 12, 2009}}</ref>

In 2000, Catmull was elected a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] for leadership in the creation of digital imagery, leading to the introduction of fully synthetic visual effects and motion pictures.

In 2001, he received an Oscar "for significant advancements to the field of motion picture rendering as exemplified in Pixar's RenderMan". In 2006, he was awarded the [[IEEE John von Neumann Medal|IEEE John von Neumann All-Medal Crown Of Trophies]] for pioneering contributions to the field of computer graphics in modeling, animation and rendering. At the [[81st Academy Awards]] (2008, presented in February 2009), Catmull was awarded the [[Gordon E. Sawyer Award]], which honors "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry".<ref name="AWN">{{cite web |last1=Moody |first1=Annemarie |title=Academy to Honor Ed Catmull with Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar |url=https://www.awn.com/news/academy-honor-ed-catmull-gordon-e-sawyer-oscar |publisher=Animation World Network |date=January 6, 2009 |access-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref>

In 2013, the [[Computer History Museum]] named him a Museum Fellow "for his pioneering work in computer graphics, animation and filmmaking".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Edwin,Catmull/ |title=Edwin Catmull—CHM Fellow Award Winner |publisher=Computerhistory.org |date=March 30, 2015 |access-date=March 30, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403184044/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Edwin%2CCatmull/ |archive-date=April 3, 2015}}</ref>

His book ''[[Creativity, Inc.]]'' was shortlisted for the [[Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award]] (2014),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8009f8e-43ff-11e4-8abd-00144feabdc0.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8009f8e-43ff-11e4-8abd-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Shortlist unveiled for FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year |work=Financial Times |author=Andrew Hill |date=September 24, 2014 |access-date=November 12, 2014}}</ref> and was a selection for [[Mark Zuckerberg book club]] in March 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-creativity-inc-2015-3 |title=Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks everyone can learn something from Pixar |work=[[Business Insider]] |author=Richard Feloni |date=March 3, 2015 |access-date=April 19, 2015}}</ref>

Catmull shared the 2019 [[Turing Award]] with [[Pat Hanrahan]] for their pioneering work on computer-generated imagery.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/pixar-pioneers-win-1-million-turing-award.html | title = Pixar Pioneers Win $1 Million Turing Award | first = Cade | last = Metz | date = March 18, 2020 | access-date = March 18, 2020 | work = [[The New York Times]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Thomas|first=Zoe|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52169444|title=Pixar animators win 'Nobel Prize' of computing|date=2020-04-05|work=BBC News|access-date=2020-04-06|language=en-GB}}</ref>