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The Technical Achievement Award is one of three Scientific and Technical Awards given from time to time by the
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. (The other two awards are the
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and the Academy Award of Merit.) The Technical Achievement Award is an honorary award that is given annually to those whose particular technical accomplishments have contributed to the progress of the motion picture industry. The award is a certificate, which describes the achievement and lists the names of those being honored for the particular contribution.Skip the first hyperlink ("Technical Achievement Award"), which no longer functions, and instead go to the second hyperlink ("Archived"). These awards are usually given at a dinner ceremony held weeks prior to the
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broadcast and a brief excerpt is shown in the Oscars telecast.


Winners

:''See :Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners.''


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of the
Academy Awards The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
(''oscars.org''). Lefthand menu links to these other related Honorary Awards; top menu includes links to home page and searchable ''Official Academy Award Database'', with information about the winners of these awards and their official Academy Award citations. Technical Achievement American science and technology awards {{Academy Awards