1963-1980
Emil Kosa Jr. (1963)
Peter Ellenshaw , Eustace Lycett , and Hamilton Luske (1964)
John Stears (1965)
Art Cruickshank (1966)
L. B. Abbott (1967)
Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Robbie Robertson (1969)
L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1970)
Alan Maley , Eustace Lycett , Danny Lee (1971)
L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers (1972)
no award given (1973)
Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson , and Albert Whitlock (1974)
Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock (1975)
Carlo Rambaldi , Glen Robinson , and Frank Van der Veer (1976)
John Stears , John Dykstra , Richard Edlund , Grant McCune , and Robert Blalack (1977)
Les Bowie , Colin Chilvers , Denys Coop , Roy Field, Derek Meddings , and Zoran Perisic (1978)
H. R. Giger , Carlo Rambaldi , Brian Johnson , Nick Allder , and Dennis Ayling (1979)
Brian Johnson , Richard Edlund , Dennis Muren , Bruce Nicholson (1980)
1981-2000
Richard Edlund , Kit West , Bruce Nicholson , and Joe Johnston (1981)
Carlo Rambaldi , Dennis Muren , and Kenneth F. Smith (1982)
Richard Edlund , Dennis Muren , Ken Ralston , and Phil Tippett (1983)
Dennis Muren , Michael J. McAlister , Lorne Peterson , and George Gibbs (1984)
Ken Ralston , Ralph McQuarrie , Scott Farrar , and David Berry (1985)
Robert Skotak , Stan Winston , John Richardson , and Suzanne Benson (1986)
Dennis Muren , William George , Harley Jessup , and Kenneth F. Smith (1987)
Ken Ralston , Richard Williams , Edward Jones, and George Gibbs (1988)
John Bruno , Dennis Muren , Hoyt Yeatman , and Dennis Skotak (1989)
Eric Brevig , Rob Bottin , Tim McGovern, and Alex Funke (1990)
Dennis Muren , Stan Winston , Gene Warren Jr., and Robert Skotak (1991)
Ken Ralston , Doug Chiang , Doug Smythe, and Tom Woodruff Jr. (1992)
Dennis Muren , Stan Winston , Phil Tippett , and Michael Lantieri (1993)
Ken Ralston , George Murphy , Stephen Rosenbaum , and Allen Hall (1994)
Scott E. Anderson , Charles Gibson , Neal Scanlan , and John Cox (1995)
Volker Engel , Douglas Smith , Clay Pinney , and Joe Viskocil (1996)
Robert Legato , Mark Lasoff , Thomas L. Fisher , Michael Kanfer (1997)
Joel Hynek , Nicholas Brooks , Stuart Robertson, and Kevin Mack (1998)
John Gaeta , Janek Sirrs , Steve Courtley , and Jon Thum (1999)
John Nelson , Neil Corbould , Tim Burke , and Rob Harvey (2000)
2001-present
Jim Rygiel , Randall William Cook , Richard Taylor , Mark Stetson (2001)
Jim Rygiel , Joe Letteri , Randall William Cook , and Alex Funke (2002)
Jim Rygiel , Joe Letteri , Randall William Cook , and Alex Funke (2003)
John Dykstra , Scott Stokdyk , Anthony LaMolinara , and John Frazier (2004)
Joe Letteri , Brian Van't Hul , Christian Rivers , and Richard Taylor (2005)
John Knoll , Hal Hickel , Charles Gibson , and Allen Hall (2006)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer , Ben Morris , and Trevor Wood (2007)
Eric Barba , Steve Preeg , Burt Dalton , and Craig Barron (2008)
Joe Letteri , Stephen Rosenbaum , Richard Baneham , and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
Paul Franklin , Chris Corbould , Andrew Lockley , and Peter Bebb (2010)
Robert Legato , Joss Williams , Ben Grossmann , and Alex Henning (2011)
Bill Westenhofer , Guillaume Rocheron , Erik-Jan de Boer , and Donald R. Elliott (2012)
Tim Webber , Chris Lawrence , Dave Shirk , and Neil Corbould (2013)
Paul Franklin , Andrew Lockley , Ian Hunter , and Scott R. Fisher (2014)
Mark Williams Ardington , Sara Bennett , Paul Norris , and Andrew Whitehurst (2015)
Robert Legato , Adam Valdez , Andrew R. Jones , and Dan Lemmon (2016)
John Nelson , Gerd Nefzer , Paul Lambert , and Richard R. Hoover (2017)
Paul Lambert , Ian Hunter , Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm (2018)
Guillaume Rocheron , Greg Butler , and Dominic Tuohy (2019)
1982–2000
Richard Edlund (1982)
Richard Edlund , Dennis Muren , Ken Ralston and Kit West (1983)
Dennis Muren , George Gibbs , Michael J. McAlister and Lorne Peterson (1984)
George Gibbs and Richard Conway (1985)
Robert Skotak , Brian Johnson , John Richardson and Stan Winston (1986)
Michael Lantieri , Michael Owens, Ed Jones and Bruce Walters (1987)
George Gibbs , Richard Williams , Ken Ralston and Ed Jones (1988)
Ken Ralston , Michael Lantieri , John Bell and Steve Gawley (1989)
The special visual effects team of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1990)
Stan Winston , Dennis Muren , Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak (1991)
Michael Lantieri , Ken Ralston , Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Doug Chiang and Douglas Smythe (1992)
Dennis Muren , Stan Winston , Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri (1993)
Ken Ralston , George Murphy , Stephen Rosenbaum , Doug Chiang and Allen Hall (1994)
Robert Legato , Michael Kanfer , Matt Sweeney and Leslie Ekker (1995)
Stefen Fangmeier , John Frazier , Henry LaBounta and Habib Zargarpour (1996)
Mark Stetson , Karen Goulekas , Nick Allder , Neil Corbould and Nick Dudman (1997)
Stefen Fangmeier , Roger Guyett and Neil Corbould (1998)
John Gaeta , Steve Courtley , Janek Sirrs and Jon Thum (1999)
Stefen Fangmeier , John Frazier , Walt Conti , Habib Zargarpour and Tim Alexander (2000)
2001–present
Jim Rygiel , Richard Taylor , Alex Funke , Randall William Cook and Mark Stetson (2001)
Jim Rygiel , Joe Letteri , Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
Joe Letteri , Jim Rygiel , Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2003)
Karen Goulekas , Neil Corbould , Greg Strause and Remo Balcells (2004)
Joe Letteri , Christian Rivers , Brian Van't Hul and Richard Taylor (2005)
John Knoll , Hal Hickel , Charles Gibson and Allen Hall (2006)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer , Ben Morris and Trevor Wood (2007)
Eric Barba , Craig Barron , Nathan McGuinness and Edson Williams (2008)
Joe Letteri , Stephen Rosenbaum , Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
Chris Corbould , Paul Franklin , Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb (2010)
Tim Burke , John Richardson , Greg Butler and David Vickery (2011)
Bill Westenhofer , Guillaume Rocheron and Erik-Jan de Boer (2012)
Tim Webber , Chris Lawrence , Dave Shirk , Neil Corbould and Nikki Penny (2013)
Paul Franklin , Scott R. Fisher , Andrew Lockley and Ian Hunter (2014)
Chris Corbould , Roger Guyett , Paul Kavanagh and Neal Scanlan (2015)
Robert Legato , Dan Lemmon , Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez (2016)
Richard R. Hoover , Paul Lambert , Gerd Nefzer and John Nelson (2017)
Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack and Dan Sudick (2018)
Greg Butler , Guillaume Rocheron and Dominic Tuohy (2019)
Volker Engel and Douglas Smith (1996)
Ken Ralston (1997)
Ellen Somers (1998)
Jerome Chen , John Dykstra , Henry F. Anderson III and Eric Allard (1999)
John Nelson (2000)
Chris Godfrey (2001)
Jim Rygiel , Joe Letteri , Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
Stefen Fangmeier , Nathan McGuinness , Robert Stromberg and Dan Sudick (2003)
Andy Brown and Kirsty Millar / Robert Legato , Peter G. Travers, Matthew Gratzner and R. Bruce Steinheimer (2004)
John Knoll and Hal Hickel (2005)
John Knoll and Hal Hickel (2006)
Chris Watts , Grant Freckelton , Derek Wentworth and Daniel Leduc (2007)
Chris Godfrey, James E. Price and Diana Giorgiutti (2008)
Volker Engel , Marc Weigert and Mike Vézina (2009)
Ken Ralston , David Schaub , Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips (2010)
Robert Legato , Ben Grossmann , Alex Henning and Adam Watkins (2011)
Jim Gibbs, Kevin Baillie, Michael Lantieri and Ryan Tudhope (2012)
Tim Webber , Chris Lawrence , Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (2013)
Joe Letteri , Dan Lemmon and Matt Kutcher (2014)
Jim Gibbs, Kevin Baillie, Viktor Muller and Sébastien Moreau (2015)
Robert Legato , Dan Lemmon , Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez (2016)
John Nelson , Paul Lambert , Richard R. Hoover and Gerd Nefzer (2017)
Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack and Dan Sudick (2018)
Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon (2019)