Scientific or Technical Awards (Class I) 1953: For creating, developing and engineering the equipment, processes and techniques known as CinemaScope. Statuettes were presented to Professor Henri Chretien, Earl I. Sponable, Sol Halprin, Lorin Grignon, Herbert Bragg & Carl Faulkner of 20th Century-Fox Studios Research Department. For more information on CinemaScope, visit The American Widescreen Museum  Scientific or Technical Awards (Class II) 1961: For a system of decompressing and recomposing CinemaScope pictures for conventional aspect ratios. Academy Plaques were presented to the 20th Century-Fox Research Department,Earl I. Sponable - Department Head, Herbert E. Bragg of Deluxe Laboratories Inc., F. D. Leslie, R. D. Whitmore, A. A. Alden, Endel Pool & James B. Gordon. 2 Scientific/Technical Awards