The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an Honorary Award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." The award is named in honour of Gordon E. Sawyer, the former Sound Director at Samuel Goldwyn Studio and three-time Academy Award winner who claimed that a listing of past Academy Awards, arranged both chronologically and by category, represents a history of the development of motion pictures. It was first presented at the 54th Academy Awards, in April 1982. The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is voted upon and given by the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy. Recipients 1981 (54th) Joseph Walker 1982 (55th) John O. Aalberg 1983 (56th) Dr. John G. Frayne 1984 (57th) Linwood G. Dunn 1987 (60th) Fred Hynes 1988 (61st) Gordon Henry Cook 1989 (62nd) Pierre Angénieux 1990 (63rd) Stefan Kudelski 1991 (64th) Ray Harryhausen 1992 (65th) Erich Kästner 1993 (66th) Petro Vlahos 1995 (68th) Donald C. Rogers 1997 (70th) Don Iwerks 1999 (72nd) Dr. Roderick T. Ryan 2000 (73rd) Irwin Young 2001 (74th) Edmund DiGiulio 2003 (76th) Peter D. Parks 2004 (77th) Takuo Miyagishima 2005 (78th) Gary Demos 2006 (79th) Ray Feeney 2007 (80th) David Grafton 2008 (81st) Edwin Catmull 2011 (84th) Douglas Trumbull 2013 (86th) Peter W. Anderson 2014 (87th) David W. Gray 2017 (90th) Jonathan Erland References External links Academy Awards – Gordon E. Sawyer Award Sawyer, Gordon E. American science and technology awards