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* Special Achievement Award - Special Award * Visual Effects - Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, George Gibbs Art Direction - Art Direction: Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988 and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.
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 61st Academy Awards Memorable Moments. Best Picture: Rain Man. Rain Man also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Directing (Barry Levinson), and Writing – Screenplay written directly for the screen (Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow).
Robin Williams and Charles Fleischer present Richard Williams with the Special Achievement Academy Award for his groundbreaking animation on Who Framed Roger...
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The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988, and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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 .
