My company wins an award along with Sony Pictures for their desire to share. If there was a mom for these two studios, she'll be happy she was able to teach her children to share.

Here's an article by David S Cohen, of variety. ILM, Sony Imageworks release Alembic 1.0

Here are the annoucements of the awards for SIGGRAPH 2011: CGW Announces SIGGRAPH 2011 Silver Edge Awards

More about Alembic.

On a partially related note, here's a video of SIGGRAPH's Keynote address. Quite inspiring.