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