The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an Honorary Award given by the

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to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." The award is named in honour of Gordon E. Sawyer, the former Sound Director at

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and three-time

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winner who claimed that a listing of past

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, arranged both chronologically and by category, represents a history of the development of motion pictures. It was first presented at the

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, in April 1982. The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is voted upon and given by the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy.

Recipients

* 1981 ( 54th) Joseph Walker * 1982 ( 55th) John O. Aalberg * 1983 ( 56th) Dr. John G. Frayne * 1984 ( 57th) Linwood G. Dunn * 1987 ( 60th) Fred Hynes * 1988 ( 61st) Gordon Henry Cook * 1989 ( 62nd)

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* 1990 ( 63rd)

Stefan Kudelski Stefan Kudelski (27 August 1931 – 26 January 2013)
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* 1991 ( 64th)

Ray Harryhausen Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation". His works include the animation for '' Mi ...

* 1992 ( 65th) Erich Kästner * 1993 ( 66th)

Petro Vlahos Petro Vlahos ( gr, Πέτρος Βλάχος; August 20, 1916 – February 10, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, considered to be one of the pioneering scientific and technical innovators of the motion picture and television indus ...

* 1995 ( 68th) Donald C. Rogers * 1997 ( 70th)

Don Iwerks Donald Warren Iwerks (; born July 24, 1929) is an American former Disney executive and co-founder of Iwerks Entertainment along with former Disney executive Stan Kinsey. He is the son of the animator Ub Iwerks (Walt Disney's original business part ...

* 1999 ( 72nd) Dr. Roderick T. Ryan * 2000 ( 73rd)

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* 2001 ( 74th) Edmund DiGiulio * 2003 ( 76th) Peter D. Parks * 2004 ( 77th)

Takuo Miyagishima Takuo Miyagishima (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2011) was a Japanese-American design engineer who worked for Panavision. He was responsible for many of the company's innovations in motion picture photography and projection. In 2005, Miyagishima ...

* 2005 ( 78th) Gary Demos * 2006 ( 79th) Ray Feeney * 2007 ( 80th) David Grafton * 2008 ( 81st)

Edwin Catmull Edwin Earl "Ed" Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist who is the co-founder of Pixar and was the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including th ...

* 2011 ( 84th)

Douglas Trumbull Douglas Hunt Trumbull (; April 8, 1942 – February 7, 2022) was an American film director and innovative visual effects supervisor. He pioneered methods in special effects and created scenes for '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'', ''Close Encounters ...

* 2013 ( 86th) Peter W. Anderson * 2014 ( 87th) David W. Gray * 2017 ( 90th) Jonathan Erland

References

External links

Academy Awards – Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Sawyer, Gordon E. American science and technology awards {{film-award-stub