OSCARS LISTS:
THE SPECIAL AWARDS
- In addition to the annual awards voted by Academy members, the Board of Governors
are empowered to vote Scientific & Technical Awards, and also to vote special honours,
as follows:
- (Spec.): Special Award (up to 1949)
- (Hon.): Honorary Award (since 1950) - usually for lifetime achievement.
- (Thalbg.): Irving G.Thalberg Memorial Award (since 1937) - for a consistently high quality of motion picture production.
- (Hersh.): Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (since 1956) - for individual humanitarian efforts bringing credit to the industry.
- (Sawyer): Gordon E. Sawyer Award (since 1982).
- 1927/8 - (Spec.): Warner Bros. (for "The Jazz Singer"), CHARLES CHAPLIN (for "The Circus")
- 1928/9 - n/a
- 1929/30 - n/a
- 1930/1 - n/a
- 1931/2 - (Spec.): Walt Disney
- 1932/3 - n/a
- 1934 - (Spec.): SHIRLEY TEMPLE
- 1935 - (Spec.): D.W. Griffith
- 1936 - (Spec.): W. Howard Greene, Howard Rosson, "The March Of Time"
- 1937 -(Spec.): Mack Sennett, Edgar Bergen, W. Howard Greene, The Museum Of Modern Art Film Library
(Thalbg.): Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1938 - (Spec.): DEANNA DURBIN, MICKEY ROONEY, Harry B. Warner, Walt Disney, Oliver Marsh, Allen Davey, J. Arthur Ball, special effects team (for "Spawn Of The North")
(Thalbg.): Hal B. Wallis
- 1939 - (Spec.): Ralph Block, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JUDY GARLAND,
Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Motion Picture Relief Fund, Conrad Nagel,
Technicolor Company, William Cameron Menzies (for "Gone With The Wind")
(Thalbg.): David O. Selznick
- 1940 - (Spec.): BOB HOPE, Colonel Nathan Levinson
- 1941 - (Spec.): Rey Scott, Leopold Stokowsky, Walt Disney, The British Ministry Of Information
(Thalbg.): Walt Disney
- 1942 - (Spec.): CHARLES BOYER, NOEL COWARD, MGM (for the "Andy Hardy" films)
(Thalbg.): Sidney Franklin
- 1943 - (Spec.): George Pal
(Thalbg.): Hal B. Wallis
- 1944 - (Spec.): Margaret O'Brien, BOB HOPE
(Thalbg.): Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1945 - (Spec.): "The House I Live In", Walter Wagner, Peggy Ann Garner, Republic Studio Sound Dept.
- 1946 - (Spec.): LAURENCE OLIVIER (for "Henry V"), Harold Russell, Ernst Lubitsch, Claude Jarman Jnr.
(Thalbg.): Samuel Goldwyn
- 1947 - (Spec.): James Baskett, Bill And Coo, Shoeshine, Col. William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat, George K. Spoor
- 1948 - (Spec.): "Monsieur Verdoux", Ivan Jandl, Sid Grauman, Adolf Zukor, Walter Wanger
(Thalbg.): Jerry Wald
- 1949 - (Spec.): "The Bicycle Thief", Bobby Driscoll, FRED ASTAIRE, Cecil B. DeMille, Jean Hersholt
- 1950 - (Hon.): "The Walls Of Malapaga", Louis B. Mayer, GEORGE MURPHY
(Thalbg.): Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1951 - (Hon.): "Rashomon", GENE KELLY
(Thalbg.): Arthur Freed
- 1952 - (Hon.): Merian C. Cooper, Harold Lloyd, BOB HOPE, Joseph M. Schenck, George Alfred Mitchell
(Thalbg.): Cecil B. DeMille
- 1953 - (Hon.): 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., Joseph I. Breen, Pete Smith, Bell & Howell Co.
(Thalbg.): George Stevens
- 1954 - (Hon.): "Gate Of Hell", Kemp R. Niver, DANNY KAYE, Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., GRETA GARBO, Jon Whiteley & Vincent Winter (for "The Little Kidnappers")
- 1955 - (Hon.): "Seven Samourai", "The Legend Of Musashi"
- 1956 - (Hon.): EDDIE CANTOR
(Thalbg.): Buddy Adler
(Hersh.): Y. Frank Freeman
- 1957 - (Hon.): B.B.Kahane, The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE), Charles Brackett, Gilbert M. 'Bronco Billy' Anderson
(Hersch.): Samuel Goldwyn
- 1958 - (Hon.): MAURICE CHEVALIER
(Thalbg.): Jack Warner
- 1959 - (Hon.): Lee De Forest, BUSTER KEATON
(Hersch.): BOB HOPE
- 1960 - (Hon.): GARY COOPER, STAN LAUREL, HAYLEY MILLS (for "Pollyanna")
(Hersch.): Sol Lesser
- 1961 - (Hon.): Jerome Robbins, Fred L. Metzler, William L. Hendricks (for "A Force In Readiness")
(Hersch.): George Seaton
- 1962 - (Hersch.): Steve Broidy
- 1963 - (Thalb.): Sam Spiegel
- 1964 - (Hon.): William Tuttle (Make-up for "7 Faces Of Dr. Lao")
- 1965 - (Hon.): BOB HOPE
(Thalb.): William Wyler
(Hersch.): Edmond L. DePatie
- 1966 - (Hon.): Yakima Canutt, Y. Frank Freeman
(Thalb.): Robert Wise
(Hersch.): George Bagnall
- 1967 - (Hon.): Arthur Freed
(Thalb.): Alfred Hitchcock
(Hersch.): GREGORY PECK
- 1968 - (Hon.): Onna White (Choreography for "OLIVER!"), John Chambers (Make-up)
(Hersch.): Martha Raye
- 1969 - (Hon.): CARY GRANT
(Hersch.): George Jessel
- 1970 - (Hon.): ORSON WELLES, LILLIAN GISH
(Thalb.): INGRID BERGMAN
(Hersch.): FRANK SINATRA
- 1971 - (Hon.): CHARLES CHAPLIN
- 1972 - (Hon.): EDWARD G. ROBINSON, Charles S. Boren
(Hersch.): ROSALIND RUSSELL
- 1973 - (Hon.): Henri Langlois, GROUCHO MARX
(Thalb.): Lawrence Weingarten
(Hersch.): Lew Wasserman
- 1974 - (Hon.): Howard Hawks, Jean Renoir
(Hersch.): Arthur B. Krim
- 1975 - (Hon.): MARY PICKFORD
(Thalb.): Mervyn LeRoy
(Hersch.): Jules C. Stein
- 1976 - (Thalb.): Pandro S. Berman
- 1977 - (Hon.): Gordon E. Sawyer, Margaret Booth, Sidney Paul Solow
(Thalb.): Walter Mirisch
(Hersch.): CHARLTON HESTON
(Spec.Achievmt.): Frank Warner (sound fx.edit, "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"), Ben Burtt (sound fx.edit, "Star Wars")
- 1978 - (Hon.): LAURENCE OLIVIER, King Vidor, Walter Lantz, The Museum of Modern Art Dept. of Film, Waldon O. Watson, Linwood G. Dunn, Loren L. Ryder
(Hersch.): Leo Jaffe
- 1979 - (Hon.): Hal Elias, ALEC GUINNESS, John G. Frayne, John O. Aalberg, Charles G. Clarke
(Thalb.): Ray Stark
(Hersch.): Robert Benjamin
(Spec.Achievmt.): Alan Spiet (sound editing, "The Black Stallion")
- 1980 - (Hon.): Fred Hynes, HENRY FONDA
- 1981 - (Hon.): BARBARA STANWYCK
(Thalb.): Albert Broccoli
(Hersch.): DANNY KAYE
(Spec.Achievmt.): Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson (sound effects, "Raiders Of the Lost Ark")
(Sawyer): Joseph B. Walker
- 1982 - (Hon.): MICKEY ROONEY
(Hersch.): Walter Mirisch
(Sawyer): John O. Aalberg
- 1983 - (Hon.): Hal Roach
(Hersch.): Mike Frankovich
(Sawyer): John G. Frayne
- 1984 - (Hon.): National Endowment for the Arts, JAMES STEWART
(Hersch.): David L. Walper
(Sawyer): Linwood G. Dunn
- 1985 - (Hon.): John H. Whitney Sr., Alex North, PAUL NEWMAN
(Hersch.): Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
- 1986 - (Hon.): RALPH BELLAMY, E.M. 'Al' Lewis
(Thalb.): Steven Spielberg
- 1987 - (Thalb.): Billy Wilder
(Sawyer): Fred Hynes
- 1988 - (Hon.): National Film Board of Canada, Eastman Kodak Co.
(Spec.Achievmt.): Richard Williams ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit?")
(Sawyer): Gordon Henry Cook
- 1989 - (Hon.): Akira Kurosawa, The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)
(Hersch.): Howard Koch
(Sawyer): Gordon Pierre Angenieux
- 1990 - (Hon.): Don Trumbull, Geoffrey H. Williamson, SOPHIA LOREN, Roderick T. Ryan, MYRNA LOY
(Thalb.): Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
(Sawyer): Stefan Kudelski
- 1991 - (Hon.): Richard J. Stumpf, Satyajit Ray, Joseph Westheimer, Richard T. Ryan, Donald Hagans, Richard T. Dayton, Pete Comandini, YCM Laboratories
(Thalb.): George Lucas
(Sawyer): Ray Harryhausen
- 1992 - (Hon.): Federico Fellini, Petro Vlahos
(Hersh.): AUDREY HEPBURN, ELIZABETH TAYLOR
(Sawyer): Erich Kaestner
- 1993 - (Hon.): DEBORAH KERR
(Hersh.): PAUL NEWMAN
(Sawyer): Petro Vlahos
- 1994 - (Hon.): John A. Bonner, Michelangelo Antonioni
(Hersch.): Quincy Jones
(Thalbg.): CLINT EASTWOOD
- 1995 - (Hon.): KIRK DOUGLAS, Chuck Jones
(Spec.Achievmt.): "Toy Story"
(Sawyer): Donald C. Rogers
- 1996 - (Hon.): Volker W. Bahnemann, Michael Kidd, Joe Lombardi, Burton 'Bud' Stone
(Thalbg.): Saul Zaentz
- 1997 - (Hon.): Stanley Donen, Joe Lombardi
(Scien./Tech.): Gunnar P. Michelsen, Pete Clark
(Sawyer): Don Iwerks
- 1998 - (Hon.): Elia Kazan, David W. Gray
(Thalbg.): Norman Jewison
- 1999 - (Hon.): Andrzej Wajda
(Thalbg.): WARREN BEATTY
- 2000 - (Hon.): Ernest Lehman, Jack Warden
(Thalbg.): Dino De Laurentiis
- 2001 - (Hon.): SIDNEY POITIER, ROBERT REDFORD
(Hersh.): Arthur Hiller
- 2002 - (Hon.): PETER O'TOOLE