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* Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects) - Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock Art Direction - Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Frank McKelvy
The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects. It has been handed to four members of the team directly responsible for creating the film's visual effects since 1980.
Feb 24, 2015 · Check winners and nominees of 1975 Academy Awards. Check awards winners of 1976 Scientific and Technical Academy Awards and 48th Academy Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)
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.
YearRecipient (s)AchievementFilm2017 ( 90th )Virtual Reality1995 ( 68th )First Feature-Length Computer-Animated ...1990 ( 63rd )Eric Brevig Rob Bottin Tim McGovern Alex ...Visual Effects1988 ( 61st )Animation DirectionThe Best Picture award went to The Godfather Part II. It was the first sequel to win Best Picture, and it also won for Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro). The Towering Inferno received a Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects. The film was a commercial blockbuster and a significant entry in the ...
Feb 17, 2020 · A special award for visual effects was given at the very first Academy Awards in 1929. Roy Pomeroy won for Best Engineering Effects for the 1927 film Wings (which also received the first Academy Award for Best Picture).
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first recognized the technical contributions of special effects to movies at its inaugural dinner in 1929, presenting a plaque for "Best Engineering Effects" to the first Best Picture Oscar winner, the World War I flying drama Wings.
