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The Special Achievement Award is an Oscar statuette given for an achievement which makes an exceptional contribution to the motion picture for which it was created, but for which there is no annual award category. Such award shall only be conferred, however, for achievements in productions which also qualify as an eligible release for distinguished achievements and meet the Academy's eligibility year and deadlines requirements.
They've been given, for example, to Benjamin Burtt Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices in "Star Wars"(1977) and to John Lasseter for his leadership of the Pixar team that created the first feature-length computer-animated film, "Toy Story"(1995).
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