Awards & Winners

Special Achievement Academy Award

Academy Awards

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. Such award shall only be conferred, however, for achievements in productions that also qualify as an eligible release for distinguished achievements and meet the Academy's eligibility year and deadlines requirements.

Check all the winners of Special Achievement Academy Award presented under Academy Awards since 1972 .


John Lasseter

Honored for : Toy Story
(first feature-length computer-animated film.)

Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke

Honored for : Total Recall
(Visual Effects)

Richard Williams

Honored for : Who Framed Roger Rabbit
(Animation Direction)

Stephen Hunter Flick, John Pospisil

Honored for : RoboCop
(Sound Effects Editing)

Kay Rose

Honored for : The River
(Sound Effects Editing)

Phil Tippett, Ken Ralston, Dennis Muren, Richard Edlund

Honored for : Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson

Honored for : Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson

Honored for : Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
(Visual Effects)

Alan Splet

Honored for : The Black Stallion
(Sound Editing)

Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic

Honored for : Superman
(Visual Effects)

Frank E. Warner

Honored for : Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(Sound Effects Editing)

Ben Burtt

Honored for : Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
(Alien, Creature and Robot Voices)

L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich

Honored for : Logan's Run
(Visual Effects)

Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer

Honored for : King Kong
(Visual Effects)

Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson

Honored for : The Hindenburg
(Visual Effects)

Peter Berkos

Honored for : The Hindenburg
(Sound Effects)

Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock

Honored for : Earthquake
(Visual Effects)

L. B. Abbott, A.D. Flowers

Honored for : The Poseidon Adventure
(Visual Effects)