Cottalango Leon was born on 1971 and is an Indian-American computer graphics technician who won the Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement jointly with Sam Richards and J Robert Ray in 2016.
10 Facts About Cottalango Leon
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Cottalango Leon worked on the itView technology for eight years as the chief contributor.
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Cottalango Leon has worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks since 1996, and has contributed to the making of several commercially successful films, including the Spider-Man film series and the Men In Black film series.
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Cottalango Leon was born at his mother's family residence in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu in 1971.
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When Cottalango Leon was young, his parents moved from the south of Tamil Nadu to Coimbatore.
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Cottalango Leon attended the Government High School at Kallapalayam, a village in the Sultanpet Block of Coimbatore.
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Subsequently, Cottalango Leon attended college at the PSG College of Technology from 1988 till 1992, completing his Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science.
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At Imageworks, as per Cottalango Leon, he was asked to develop an improved digital film review software as an alternative to a then existing software.
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Cottalango Leon released the initial version within two months of having been assigned the job; after receiving positive feedback from the artists using the software, Cottalango Leon kept updating various functionalities of the software over the years.
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Cottalango Leon mentions working alone on the project for many years, and that he was over time given a team when the project achieved significant growth.