Special Acting Awards

1927/28 (1st)

SPECIAL AWARD

*

To Charles Chaplin, for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus. [NOTE: "The Academy Board of Judges on merit awards for individual achievements in motion picture arts during the year ending August 1, 1928, unanimously decided that your name should be removed from the competitive classes, and that a special first award be conferred upon you for writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus. The collective accomplishments thus displayed place you in a class by yourself." (Letter from the Academy to Mr. Chaplin, dated February 19, 1929.)]

1934 (7th)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Shirley Temple, in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.

1938 (11th)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement.

1939 (12th)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Judy Garland for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year.

1944 (17th)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Margaret O'Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944.

1945 (18th)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Peggy Ann Garner, outstanding child actress of 1945.

1946 (19th)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Harold Russell for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives.

*	To Claude Jarman, Jr., outstanding child actor of 1946.

1947 (20th)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To James Baskett for his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to the children of the world in Walt Disney's Song of the South.

1948 (21st)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Ivan Jandl, for the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as "Karel Malik" in The Search.

1949 (22nd)

SPECIAL AWARD

*	To Bobby Driscoll, as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949.

1954 (27th)

HONORARY AWARD

*	To Jon Whiteley for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers.

*	To Vincent Winter for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers.

1960 (33rd)

HONORARY AWARD

*	To Hayley Mills for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960.