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The Special Achievement Award is an Academy Award given for an achievement which 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 which also qualify as an eligible release for distinguished achievements and meet the Academy's eligibility year and deadlines requirements. - 1972 The Poseidon Adventure - L. B. Abbott, A. D. Flowers (Visual Effects)
- 1974 Earthquake - Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock (Visual Effects)
- 1975 The Hindenburg - Peter Berkos (Sound Effects)
- 1975 The Hindenburg - Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson (Visual Effects)
- 1976 King Kong - Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer Visual Effects)
- 1976 Logan's Run - L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich (Visual Effects)
- 1977 Star Wars - Benjamin Burtt, Jr. (Creation of the alien, creature and robot voices)
- 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Frank E. Warner (Sound Effects Editing)
- 1978 Superman - Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic (Visual Effects)
- 1979 The Black StallionThe Black Stallion is a 1979 film which tells the story of a boy who is shipwrecked on a desert island with a wild Arab stallion. The movie stars Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr and Hoyt Axton. The movie was adapted by Melissa Mathison, Jeanne Rosenb - Alan Splet (Sound Editing)
- 1980See also 1979 in film 1980 1981 in film 1970s in film 1980s in film years in film film Events April 30 The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar opens in London. Sharon Stone makes her film debut in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in The Empire Strikes Back - Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson (Visual Effects)
- 1981See also 1980 in film 1981 1982 in film 1980s in film years in film film Events January 19 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleagured concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate a major facto Raiders of the Lost ArkRaiders of the Lost Ark is a feature film released by Paramount Pictures in 1981. Directed by Steven Spielberg, it is a fantasy adventure and the first in a series of film and TV productions about the adventures of the heroic fictional archaeologist India - Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson (Sound Effects Editing)
- 1983See also 1982 in film 1983 1984 in film 1980s in film years in film film Events February 11 The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York Top grossing films :North America # Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi # Too Return of the Jedi - Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett (Visual Effects)
- 1984See also 1983 in film 1984 1985 in film 1980s in film years in film film Events Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film. November 26 Filming starts on Back to the Future''. Actress Sharon Stone marrie The River - Kay Rose (Sound Effects Editing)
- 1987 RoboCop - Stephen Flick, John Pospisil (Sound Effects Editing)
- 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Richard Williams (Animation Direction)
- 1990 Total Recall - Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke (Visual Effects)
- 1995 Toy Story - John Lasseter (First feature-length computer-animated film)
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