Special Achievement Academy Award
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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. Many of the film projects that received these awards were noted for breaking new ground in terms of technology, where an awards category simply did not yet exist for the given area. New awards categories were often opened in following years. For example, Toy Story was awarded a special achievement award as the first computer-animated feature film in 1996, before the Best Animated Feature Film category debuted in 2001 in which Shrek won the inaugural award.[1]
The award may only be conferred for achievements in productions that also qualify as an eligible release for distinguished achievements and meet the Academy's eligibility year and deadlines requirements. Special Achievement Awards were primarily given between the 1970s and 1990s, with only a single award being given since 2000.
Recipients
[edit]This table displays the individuals who received the Special Achievement Oscar for their contributions to film. The category was inaugurated in 1972.
References
[edit]- ^ "We Need More Special Achievement Oscars to Honor What is Interesting in Cinema". 23 February 2014.
- ^ "1995 Academy Awards". infoplease. Retrieved January 31, 2009.
- ^ King, Susan (September 30, 2015). "How 'Toy Story' changed the face of animation, taking off 'like an explosion'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "Three Pixar execs get special Oscars". San Francisco Chronicle. February 1, 1996. Archived from the original on September 17, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
- ^ "Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on February 24, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2026.
