Gordon E. Sawyer Award
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The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an accolade given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." The award is named in honor of the former Head of the Sound department at Samuel Goldwyn Studio and three-time Academy Award winner who claimed that a listing of past Academy Awards, arranged both chronologically and by category, represents a history of the development of motion pictures. The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is voted upon and given by the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy.
[edit] Recipients of the Gordon E. Sawyer Award
- 1981 (54th) Joseph B. Walker
- 1982 (55th) John O. Aalberg
- 1983 (56th) Dr. John G. Frayne
- 1984 (57th) Linwood G. Dunn
- 1987 (60th) Fred Hynes
- 1988 (61st) Gordon Henry Cook
- 1989 (62nd) Pierre Angenieux
- 1990 (63rd) Stefan Kudelski
- 1991 (64th) Ray Harryhausen
- 1992 (65th) Erich Kästner
- 1993 (66th) Petro Vlahos
- 1995 (68th) Donald C. Rogers
- 1997 (70th) Don Iwerks
- 1999 (72nd) Dr. Roderick T. Ryan
- 2000 (73rd) Irwin W. Young
- 2001 (74th) Edmund M. Di Giulio
- 2003 (76th) Peter D. Parks
- 2004 (77th) Takuo Miyagishima
- 2007 (79th) Ray Feeney
[edit] Other special awards
- Academy Juvenile Award – 1934 to 1960
- Academy Honorary Award – 1928 to present
- Academy Special Achievement Award
- The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award – 1938 to present
- The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
