新西兰英语 251 BAFTA Awards

　　The winners of the BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards on Sunday included the New Zealand company Weta Digital for the visual effects in the movie Avatar. Weta Digital used some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to design the Na’vi characters and the Pandora world in 3D. The whole movie used 1 petabyte of digital storage. One petabyte is 1 million gigabytes, or 10 to the power of 15 bytes¹.
Avatar is also nominated² for the best visual effects in the Academy Awards next month. Another movie, District 9, is also nominated in this category. Weta Workshops designed the aliens in District 9 and Weta Digital designed the mother-ship. Both companies are partly owned by the New Zealander Peter Jackson.
Peter Jackson was the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong. Weta Digital designed the visual effects in all four movies using computers. Weta Workshops made some of the characters, their masks and their costumes.
Peter Jackson was also a producer of District 9 which is nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards. He lives in Wellington.

1 bytes   

字节( byte的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• In order to address 1024 bytes, 10 address lines are needed. 为了对1024个字节寻址，需要10条地址线。
• Binary data that requires two or more bytes for full representation. 需要两个或多个字节来完整表示的二进制数据。

2 nominated   

adj.被提名的，被任命的 动词nominate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• She has been nominated for the presidency. 她已经获得了董事长职位的提名。
• The movie was nominated for an Oscar. 这部电影获奥斯卡金像奖提名。