Special Achievement Academy Award

Not to be confused with Academy Achievement 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. 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.

Award recipients

This table displays the individuals who received the Special Achievement Oscar for their contributions to film. The category was inaugurated in 1972 and discontinued in 1995; Toy Story was the last Special Achievement award given at the Oscars.

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	Visual Effects	Earthquake
1975 (48th)	Peter Berkos	Sound Effects	The Hindenburg
1975 (48th)	Albert Whitlock Glen Robinson	Visual Effects	The Hindenburg
1976 (49th)	Carlo Rambaldi Glen Robinson Frank Van der Veer		King Kong
1976 (49th)	L. B. Abbott Glen Robinson Matthew Yuricich		Logan's Run
1977 (50th)	Ben Burtt	Alien, Creature and Robot Voices	Star Wars
1977 (50th)	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	Sound Effects Editing	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	Toy Story

Academy Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Records Most wins per ceremony Oscar season Governors Awards Pre-show History of film

Merit awards	Best Picture Director Actor Actress Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Adapted Screenplay Original Screenplay Animated Feature Documentary Feature Foreign Language Film Animated Short Film Documentary Short Subject Live Action Short Film Cinematography Costume Design Film Editing Makeup and Hairstyling Original Score Original Song Original Musical Production Design Sound Editing Sound Mixing Visual Effects

Special awards	Academy Honorary Award Academy Scientific and Technical Award Gordon E. Sawyer Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Special Achievement Academy Award Student Academy Award

Retired awards	Assistant Director Dance Direction Director of a Comedy Picture Engineering Effects Short Subject, Two-reel Short Subject, Comedy Short Subject, Novelty Original Story Title Writing Unique and Artistic Quality of Production Academy Juvenile Award

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