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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.
* Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects) - Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic Film Editing - Stuart Baird Music (Original Score) - John Williams
Student Academy Awards; ... Monday, April 9, 1979. Honoring movies released in 1978. ... Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects) Winner. Superman.
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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). However, an Oscar for visual effects was not granted again until the 11th Academy Awards in 1939 for the adventure film Spawn of t...
Any feature that qualifies under the standard Academy Awards rules is eligible in the Best Visual Effects category, and all eligible films appear on a nominations ballot that is voted on by the Executive Committee of the Visual Effects Branch of the Academy to narrow the field to a maximum of 20 films. A film's visual effects are judged on the basi...
Dennis Muren has received the most Oscars for Visual Effects with eight wins. He won six of his Oscars competitively (for 1982's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1987's Innerspace, 1989's The Abyss, 1991'sTerminator 2: Judgment Day, and 1993's Jurassic Park) and two as Special Achievement Awards (for 1980's T...
Feb 5, 2014 · SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Editing) The Black Stallion – Alan Splet. VISUAL EFFECTS. Alien – H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, Denys Ayling The Black Hole – Peter Ellenshaw, Art Cruickshank, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee, Harrison Ellenshaw, Joe Hale Moonraker – Derek Meddings, Paul Wilson, John Evans
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.
Director Mark Robson Stars Charlton Heston Ava Gardner George Kennedy. Winner-Visual Effects. 3. The Hindenburg. 1975 2h 5m PG. 6.3 (6.6K) Rate. A chronicle of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
