On March 23 , 1998 , at the 70th Academy Awards show , Iwerks received an Oscar . He was awarded the Gordon E. Sawyer Award , which is given each year 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 . " On March 21 , 1999 , at the 71st Academy Awards show , an Oscar for Scientific and Technical Achievement was presented to Iwerks Entertainment for an innovation called the Iwerks 8/70 Linear Loop projection system
70th Academy Awards
70th Academy Awards
Don Iwerks