Winners of the Special Achievement Academy Award. This Award has been given since 1973, for various different reasons.

• 1995
  • Toy Story - John Lasseter
• 1990 Visual Effects
  • Total Recall - Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke
• 1988 Animation Direction
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Richard Williams
• 1987 Sound Effects Editing
  • RoboCop - Stephen Flick, John Pospisil
• 1984 Sound Effects Editing
  • The River - Kay Rose
• 1983 Visual Effects
  • Return of the Jedi - Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett
• 1981 Sound Effects Editing
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark - Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson
• 1980 Visual Effects
  • The Empire Strikes Back - Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson
• 1979 Sound Editing
  • The Black Stallion - Alan Splet
• 1978 Visual Effects
  • Superman (1978) - Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic
• 1977 Sound Effects Editing
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Frank E. Warner
• 1977
  • Star Wars - Benjamin Burtt, Jr.
• 1976 Visual Effects
  • King Kong - Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer
  • Logan's Run - L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich
• 1975 Sound Effects
  • The Hindenburg - Peter Berkos, Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson
• 1974 Visual Effects
  • Earthquake - Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock
• 1972 Visual Effects
  • The Poseidon Adventure - L. B. Abbott, A. D. Flowers