Mike Seymour:

Nuke started life at Digital Domain (DD) and then moved to The Foundry. The awards honor both the early work and the continuing R&D that has made this software the cornerstone of so many serious pipelines. Today, Foundry's Nuke has become a ubiquitous tool used across the motion picture and visual effects industries. It's nodal approach to compositing and effects has enabled novel and sophisticated workflows at an unprecedented scale and is used the world over.

While I have complaints about Nuke and The Foundry, Nuke is a amazing piece of software. If you can think it you can do it with enough time and money.