Saturn Award for Best Special / Visual Effects | |
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Awarded for | Best special effects and visual effects of the year for a genre film |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films |
First awarded | 1975 |
Currently held by | Avatar: The Way of Water (2022/23) |
Website | www |
The Saturn Award for Best Special / Visual Effects is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time at the 2nd Saturn Awards in 1975.
Year | Recipients | Film |
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1973 (2nd) | Marcel Vercoutere | The Exorcist |
1974/1975 (3rd) | ||
Douglas Knapp, Bill Taylor, John Carpenter, Dan O'Bannon | Dark Star | |
1976 (4th) | ||
L. B. Abbott (for his career) | ||
1977 (5th) | ||
John Dykstra, John Stears | Star Wars | |
Douglas Trumbull | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
Albert Whitlock, Chuck Gaspar (Van der Veer Photo Effects) | Exorcist II: The Heretic | |
Ray Harryhausen | Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | |
1978 (6th) | Colin Chilvers | Superman |
Henry Millar (Van der Veer Photo Effects) | Capricorn One | |
Ira Anderson Jr. | Damien: Omen II | |
Dell Rheaume, Russel Hessey | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |
Albert Whitlock | The Wiz | |
1979 (7th) | Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich | Star Trek: The Motion Picture |
Brian Johnson, Nick Allder | Alien | |
Peter Ellenshaw | The Black Hole | |
John Evans, John Richardson | Moonraker | |
Robbie Knott | The Muppet Movie |
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