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. 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.

Not to be confused with Academy Achievement Award.

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
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[1][2][3] Toy Story
2017 (90th) Alejandro González Iñárritu Virtual Reality Flesh and Sand

References
  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. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  3. "Three Pixar execs get special Oscars". San Francisco Chronicle. February 1, 1996. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
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