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Special Achievement Academy Award facts for kids

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The Special Achievement Award was a special Oscar given to people who did something amazing in a movie. It was for achievements that were super important but didn't fit into the regular yearly award categories. Think of it as a special prize for something truly unique and groundbreaking!

This award was given out from 1972 until 1995. It recognized incredible work in areas like visual effects, sound, and even animation. These were often things that pushed the boundaries of filmmaking at the time.

Award Winners: Special Movie Achievements

This table shows the talented people who received the Special Achievement Oscar. They were honored for their amazing contributions to movies. The award started in 1972 and celebrated many different kinds of movie magic.

Year Winner(s) Achievement Film
1972 (45th) L. B. Abbott
A. D. Flowers
Visual Effects (how things look on screen, like explosions or monsters) The Poseidon Adventure
1974 (47th) Frank Brendel
Glen Robinson
Albert Whitlock
Earthquake
1975 (48th) Peter Berkos Sound Effects (the sounds you hear, like crashes or whispers) 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 (making sure all the sounds fit perfectly) 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 (how animated characters move and act) 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 Toy Story
2017 (90th) Alejandro González Iñárritu Virtual Reality (a computer-generated world you can explore) Flesh and Sand
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