Academy Awards

1967 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerFantastic VoyageArt CruickshankA scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.Amazon1967 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesHawaiiLinwood G. DunnAmazon

1968 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerDoctor DolittleL.B. AbbottAfter the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.Amazon1968 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesTobrukHoward A. AndersonAmazon

1969 Academy Awards - Visual Effects Winner2001: A Space OdysseyStanley KubrickAfter discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.Amazon1969 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesIce Station ZebraHal MillarAmazon

1970 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerMaroonedRobie RobinsonThree American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?Amazon1970 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesKrakatoa: East of JavaEugène LouriéAmazon

1971 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerTora! Tora! Tora!A.D. FlowersIn 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.Amazon1971 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesPattonAlex WeldonAmazon

1972 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerBedknobs and BroomsticksAlan MaleyAn apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.Amazon1972 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesWhen Dinosaurs Ruled the EarthJim DanforthAmazon

1978 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerStar Wars: Episode IV - A New HopeJohn StearsLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.Amazon1978 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesClose Encounters of the Third KindRoy ArbogastAmazon

1980 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerAlienH.R. GigerAfter 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.Amazon1980 Academy Awards - Visual Effects Nominees1941William A. FrakerAmazonMoonrakerDerek MeddingsAmazonStar Trek: The Motion PictureDouglas TrumbullAmazonThe Black HolePeter EllenshawAmazon

1982 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerRaiders of the Lost ArkRichard EdlundIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.Amazon1982 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesDragonslayerDennis MurenAmazon

1983 Academy Awards - Visual Effects WinnerE.T. the Extra-TerrestrialCarlo RambaldiA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.Amazon1983 Academy Awards - Visual Effects NomineesBlade RunnerDouglas TrumbullAmazonPoltergeistRichard EdlundAmazon