Special Achievement Academy Award

The Special Achievement Award is an Academy Award. It is given for an achievement that makes an exceptional contribution, but for which there is no yearly award category.

Recipients

This table displays the people who received the Special Achievement Oscar for their contributions to movie. The category started in 1972.

Year	Recipient(s)	Achievement	Film
1972 (45th)	L. B. Abbott A. D. Flowers	Visual Effects	The Poseidon Adventure
1974 (47th)	Frank Brendel Glen Robinson Albert Whitlock	Visual Effects	Earthquake
1975 (48th)	Peter Berkos	Sound Effects	The Hindenburg
1975 (48th)	Albert Whitlock Glen Robinson	Visual Effects	The Hindenburg
1976 (49th)	Carlo Rambaldi Glen Robinson Frank Van der Veer		King Kong
1976 (49th)	L. B. Abbott Glen Robinson Matthew Yuricich		Logan's Run
1977 (50th)	Ben Burtt	Alien, Creature and Robot Voices	Star Wars
1977 (50th)	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	Sound Effects Editing	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 Movie^[1]^[2]^[3]	Toy Story
2017 (90th)	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Virtual Reality	Flesh and Sand

References

↑ "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. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-toy-story-anniversary-20150930-story.html. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
↑ "Three Pixar execs get special Oscars". San Francisco Chronicle. February 1, 1996. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/02/01/STYLE8516.dtl. Retrieved March 12, 2009.

[1] "1995 Academy Awards". infoplease. Retrieved January 31, 2009.

[2] King, Susan (September 30, 2015). "How 'Toy Story' changed the face of animation, taking off 'like an explosion'". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-toy-story-anniversary-20150930-story.html. Retrieved September 30, 2015.

[LasseterSpecial-3] "Three Pixar execs get special Oscars". San Francisco Chronicle. February 1, 1996. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/02/01/STYLE8516.dtl. Retrieved March 12, 2009.

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