Special Achievement Award



1972 (45th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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The Poseidon Adventure -- L. B. Abbott, A. D. Flowers

1974 (47th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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Earthquake -- Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock

1975 (48th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Effects)
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The Hindenburg -- Peter Berkos
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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The Hindenburg -- Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson

1976 (49th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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King Kong -- Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer
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Logan's Run -- L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich

1977 (50th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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To Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices featured in Star Wars.
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Effects Editing)
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- Frank E. Warner

1978 (51st)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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Superman -- Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic

1979 (52nd)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Editing)
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The Black Stallion -- Alan Splet

1980 (53rd)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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The Empire Strikes Back -- Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson

1981 (54th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Effects Editing)
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Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson

1983 (56th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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Return of the Jedi -- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett

1984 (57th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Effects Editing)
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The River -- Kay Rose

1987 (60th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Effects Editing)
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RoboCop -- Stephen Flick, John Pospisil

1988 (61st)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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To Richard Williams for the animation direction of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

1990 (63rd)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
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Total Recall -- Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke

1995 (68th)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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To John Lasseter, for his inspired leadership of the Pixar Toy Story team, resulting in the first feature-length computer-animated film.