Academy Awards
The company has received two Academy Awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Scientific and Technical Achievement.
The first occurred in 1998 at the 70th Academy Awards show, where founder Don Iwerks was awarded the Gordon E. Sawyer Award award, given each year to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry."
The second occurred in 1999 at the 71st Academy Awards show, where the company was awarded an Academy Award for a technical innovation called the Iwerks 8/70 Linear Loop projection system.
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