ACM Fellows, "for contributions to video and image compression and leadership in its standardization". Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) for "individuals who have, by proficiency and contributions, attained an outstanding rank among engineers or executives, in the motion-picture, television or related industries", 2022 Digital Processing Medal of SMPTE for innovation and industry leadership in image and video compression, 2019 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award – awarded to the JCT-VC standards committee by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, 2017 Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2017 (together with Thiow Keng Tan, Rajitha Weerakkody, Marta Mrak, Naeem Ramzan, Vittorio Baroncini, and Jens-Rainer Ohm) Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2013 (together with Jens-Rainer Ohm, Woo-Jin Han, and Thomas Wiegand) IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award (together with Gisle Bjøntegaard and Thomas Wiegand), 2012 Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) for achievements in video and image compression technologies, 2009 J. B. Speed Professional Award in Engineering, 2009 Paired Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards – one awarded to VCEG and one to MPEG by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard, 2009 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award – awarded to the JVT standards committee by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the High Profile of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, 2008 International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) Leadership award, 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award, 2008 Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to video coding and its standardization, 2006 The video coding work of the ITU-T led by Sullivan for the preceding ten years was voted as the most influential area of the standardization work of the CCITT and ITU-T in their 50-year history, 2006 Technical Achievement award of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for his work on H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and other video standardization topics, 2005 Leadership Sullivan has held the following chairmanships in video coding standardization organizations: Rapporteur/chairman of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) of ITU-T Study Group 16 – since 1996 Chairman and co-chairman of the video part of the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) – chairman March 2001 – May 2002, co-chairman since May 2002 Chairman and