Since the inception of the Academy Awards, more than 80 Oscar®-winning "Best Pictures" have been shot on Kodak film. The company even has nine Oscar® statuettes of its own -- for scientific and technical excellence.

That's more than any non-studio company – not surprising given that Kodak has been involved in technological innovations throughout the industry's history. Kodak:

• marketed its first film designed for making then-new "sound" motion pictures in 1929.
• earned a 1949 Academy Award for a tri-acetate safety film base (introduced in 1948) for motion picture film. This eliminated a significant safety hazard posed by the flammable nitrate film base it replaced, and also helped ensure the long-term integrity of the films.
• earned another Academy Award for EASTMAN Color Negative and Color Print Films (introduced in 1950), which helped popularize color movies for theaters and television.
• improved emulsion technology with its EASTMAN EXR Color Negative Film products in 1989. These gave cinematographers significant creative flexibility, providing more underexposure latitude; truer colors in fluorescent light, and greater sharpness.

In 2002, KODAK VISION2 Motion Picture Films became first in a series of products designed to work with both film and digital post-production systems. In fact, the technology incorporated in these films earned Kodak its ninth Oscar® statuette. Further building on that technology, a family of KODAK VISION3 Films was launched in 2007.

With digital capture and distribution more the norm in today’s motion picture industry, Kodak still provides high-quality products for “film worthy” productions.