1980 Academy Awards – Visual Effects Winner and Nominees

Alien

H.R. Giger

After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

1941

William A. Fraker

Moonraker

Derek Meddings

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Douglas Trumbull

The Black Hole

Peter Ellenshaw