Special Achievement Academy Award
The Special Achievement Award is an Academy Award given for an achievement that makes an exceptional contribution to the motion picture for which it was created, but for which there is no annual award category. Many of the film projects that received these awards were noted for breaking new ground in terms of technology, where an awards category simply did not yet exist for the given area. New awards categories were often opened in following years. For example, Toy Story was awarded a special achievement award as the first computer-animated feature film in 1996, before the best animated feature category debuted in 2001.[1]
The award may only be conferred for achievements in productions that also qualify as an eligible release for distinguished achievements and meet the Academy's eligibility year and deadlines requirements. Special Achievement Awards were primarily given between the 1970s and 1990s, with only a single award being given since 2000.
Recipients
This table displays the individuals who received the Special Achievement Oscar for their contributions to film. The category was inaugurated in 1972.
Year | Recipient(s) | Achievement | Film |
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1972 (45th) | L. B. Abbott A. D. Flowers | Visual Effects | The Poseidon Adventure |
1974 (47th) | Frank Brendel Glen Robinson Albert Whitlock | Earthquake | |
1975 (48th) | Peter Berkos | Sound Effects | The Hindenburg |
Albert Whitlock Glen Robinson | Visual Effects | ||
1976 (49th) | Carlo Rambaldi Glen Robinson Frank Van der Veer | King Kong | |
L. B. Abbott Glen Robinson Matthew Yuricich | Logan's Run | ||
1977 (50th) | Ben Burtt | Alien, Creature and Robot Voices | Star Wars |
Frank Warner | Sound Effects Editing | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
1978 (51st) | Les Bowie Colin Chilvers Denys Coop Roy Field Derek Meddings Zoran Perisic | Visual Effects | Superman |
1979 (52nd) | Alan Splet | Sound Editing | The Black Stallion |
1980 (53rd) | Brian Johnson Richard Edlund Dennis Muren Bruce Nicholson | Visual Effects | The Empire Strikes Back |
1981 (54th) | Ben Burtt Richard L. Anderson | Sound Effects Editing | Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1983 (56th) | Richard Edlund Dennis Muren Ken Ralston Phil Tippett | Visual Effects | Return of the Jedi |
1984 (57th) | Kay Rose | Sound Effects Editing | The River |
1987 (60th) | Stephen Hunter Flick John Pospisil | RoboCop | |
1988 (61st) | Richard Williams | Animation Direction | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
1990 (63rd) | Eric Brevig Rob Bottin Tim McGovern Alex Funke | Visual Effects | Total Recall |
1995 (68th) | John Lasseter | First Feature-Length Computer-Animated Film[2][3][4] | Toy Story |
2017 (90th) | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Virtual Reality | Flesh and Sand |
References
- ^ "We Need More Special Achievement Oscars to Honor What is Interesting in Cinema". 23 February 2014.
- ^ "1995 Academy Awards". infoplease. Retrieved January 31, 2009.
- ^ King, Susan (September 30, 2015). "How 'Toy Story' changed the face of animation, taking off 'like an explosion'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "Three Pixar execs get special Oscars". San Francisco Chronicle. February 1, 1996. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
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- L. B. Abbott, A. D. Flowers (1972)
- Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock (1974)
- Peter Berkos / Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson (1975)
- Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer / L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich (1976)
- Ben Burtt / Frank Warner (1977)
- Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic (1978)
- Alan Splet (1979)
- Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (1980)
- Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson (1981)
- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett (1983)
- Kay Rose (1984)
- Stephen Hunter Flick, John Pospisil (1987)
- Richard Williams (1988)
- Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke (1990)
- John Lasseter (1995)
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (2017)