Olivia Munn and Jason Segel shook up the SciTech awards

Everyone brace yourself.

Because Olivia Munn and Jason Segel put some completely entertaining explaining to work as the hosts of the annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Saturday night.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards program honored 10 scientific and technical achievements represented by 33 individual award recipients.

One of these achievements was the Image Shaker, the benefits of which Segel and Munn demonstrated from the podium.

Pre-Image Shaker, as viewers saw in shows like Star Trek, operators literally shook the camera to show movement (such as a spaceship hit by a missile) as actors jolted about on the set.

Munn and Segel demonstrated the old way from the podium in what will surely go down as an award-winning presenters performance.

Munn explained that the Image Shaker technical achievement by Michael John Keesling, used in films such as Saving Private Ryan, "creates a customizable shaking effect that doesn't actually move the whole camera."

Segel summarized the science around it amazingly well. But that's in the video.

Unlike other Academy Awards achievements, Scientific and Technical Awards were not necessarily developed during 2015. Rather, the achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the filmmaking process.

Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will be included in the Oscar telecast on February 28.

Here is the complete list of honorees.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (ACADEMY CERTIFICATES)

1. To Michael John Keesling for the design and development of Image Shaker, an optical system that convincingly creates the illusion of the camera shaking in a variable and repeatable manner.
2. To David McIntosh, Steve Smith, Mike Branham and Mike Kirilenko for the engineering and development of the Aircover Inflatables Airwall.
3. To Trevor Davies, Thomas Wan, Jon Scott Miller, Jared Smith and Matthew Robinson for the development of the Dolby Laboratories PRM Series Reference Color Monitors.
4. To Ronald Mallet and Christoph Bregler for the design and engineering of the Industrial Light & Magic Geometry Tracker, a novel, general-purpose tracker and solver.
5. To Jim Hourihan, Alan Trombla and Seth Rosenthal for the design and development of the Tweak Software RV system, a highly extensible media player system.
6. To Richard Chuang and Rahul C. Thakkar for the groundbreaking design, and to Andrew Pilgrim, Stewart Birnam and Mark Kirk for the review workflows and advanced playback features, of the DreamWorks Animation Media Review System.
7. To Keith Goldfarb, Steve Linn, Brian Green and Raymond Chih for the development of the Rhythm & Hues Global DDR System.
8. To J. Robert Ray, Cottalango Leon and Sam Richards for the design, engineering and continuous development of Sony Pictures Imageworks Itview.

SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS (ACADEMY PLAQUES)

1.To Brian McLean and Martin Meunier for pioneering the use of rapid prototyping for character animation in stop-motion film production.

2. To Jack Greasley, Kiyoyuki Nakagaki, Duncan Hopkins and Carl Rand for the design and engineering of the MARI 3D texture painting system.

SPECIAL AWARD (PLAQUE)
         To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers