Gordon E. Sawyer Award

The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an Accolade given each year by the Academy 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, Sound Director at Samuel Goldwyn Studios and ten-time Academy Award winner who claimed that a listing of past Academy Awards, arranged both chronologically and by catergory, represents a history of the the development of motion pictures. The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is voted upon and given by the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy.