ACM SIGGRAPH presents five awards to recognize exceptional achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The awards are presented at the annual SIGGRAPH conference.
Award nominations are welcome and encouraged. ACM SIGGRAPH members are invited to nominate individuals for the Steven Anson Coons Award, the Computer Graphics Achievement Award, and the Significant New Researcher Award by contacting the Technical Awards Chair before 31 January each year. Nominations should be brief, and one nomination for a person is just as powerful as 10 are. The awards committee compiles a list of nominated individuals and examines each carefully, along with others the committee feels are worthy of consideration.
The Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics
The Steven A. Coons award is presented in odd-numbered years to to honor lifetime contribution to computer graphics and interactive techniques.
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2013 Turner Whitted
2011 James T. Kajiya
2009 Robert L. Cook
2007 Nelson Max
2005 Tomoyuki Nishita
2003 Pat Hanrahan
2001 Lance J. Williams
1999 James F. Blinn
1997 James Foley
1995 José Luis Encarnação
1993 Ed Catmull
1991 Andries van Dam
1989 David C. Evans
1987 Donald P. Greenberg
1985 Pierre Bézier
1983 Ivan E. Sutherland
The Computer Graphics Achievement Award
The Computer Graphics Achievement award is given each year to recognize an individual for an outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
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2013 Holly Rushmeier
2012 Greg Turk
2011 Richard Szeliski
2010 Jessica Hodgins
2009 Michael Kass
2008 Ken Perlin
2007 Greg Ward
2006 Thomas W. Sederberg
2005 Jos Stam
2004 Hugues Hoppe
2003 Peter Schröder
2002 David Kirk
2001 Andrew Witkin
2000 David H. Salesin
1999 Tony DeRose
1998 Michael F. Cohen
1997 Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
1996 Marc Levoy
1995 Kurt Akeley
1994 Kenneth E. Torrance
1993 Pat Hanrahan
1992 Henry Fuchs
1991 James T. Kajiya
1990 Richard Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith
1989 John Warnock
1988 Alan H. Barr
1987 Robert Cook
1986 Turner Whitted
1985 Loren Carpenter
1984 James H. Clark
1983 James F. Blinn
The Significant New Researcher Award
The Significant New Researcher Award is awarded annually to a researcher who has made a recent significant contribution to the field of computer graphics and is new to the field. The intent is to recognize people who have already made a notable contribution very early in their careers and are likely to make more.
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2013 Niloy Mitra
2012 Karen Liu
2011 Olga Sorkine
2010 Alexei Efros
2009 Wojciech Matusik
2008 Maneesh Agrawala
2007 Ravi Ramamoorthi
2006 Takeo Igarashi
2005 Ron Fedkiw
2004 Zoran Popović
2003 Mathieu Desbrun
2002 Steven J. Gortler
2001 Paul E. Debevec
The Outstanding Service Award
The Outstanding Service Award is presented annually to recognize a career of outstanding service to ACM SIGGRAPH by a volunteer. It recognizes an individual who has given extraordinary service to ACM SIGGRAPH, both in the trenches and in positions of more responsibility or visibility, over a significant period of time. The criteria used to evaluate the award include the importance of the service and the degree of sacrifice incurred by the volunteer. ACM SIGGRAPH members are invited to nominate individuals for the Outstanding Service Award by contacting the Outstanding Service Award Chair before 31 January each year.
Nominations should include:
- Name(s) of the individual(s) being nominated (address and/or phone number and/or email address are also appreciated).
- A description of the service(s) to ACM SIGGRAPH and time period.
- A statement by the nominator describing the significance of the service(s). Additional letters of support and other materials are not necessary but will be appreciated.
- Nominator’s name, address, telephone number, and email address.
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2013 Mary Whitton
2012 David Kasik
2010 Kellogg S. Booth
2008 Stephen Spencer
2006 John Fujii
2004 Judy Brown and Steve Cunningham
2002 Bertram Herzog
2000 Tom DeFanti and Copper Giloth
1998 Maxine Brown
The Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
The Distinguished Artist Award is presented annually to an artist who has created a substantial and important body of work that significantly advances aesthetic content in the field of digital art. ACM SIGGRAPH members are invited to nominate individuals for the Distinguished Artist Award by contacting the Artist Award Chair by mid-December each year. Nominations should include:
- Name(s) of the individual(s) being nominated (address and/or phone number and/or email address are also appreciated).
- References to web sites showing the artist's works and texts when applicable (multiple references are welcome).
- Nominator's name, address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement describing the significance of the artist's contributions according to the following criteria:
The artist has been contributing internationally to the digital arts for more than 20 years. The artist has produced important work(s) that is (are) referenced in digital art history, theoretical papers, and/or books. The artist has established an unexplored area in the field of digital art. The artist has been advancing the use of digital technologies in creative expression. The artist has contributed to the history and/or theory and/or practice of digital art through writing and presentations at conferences and symposia.
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2013 Manfred Mohr
2012 Jean-Pierre Hébert
2011 Charles Csuri
2010 Yoichiro Kawaguchi
2009 Lynn Hershman Leeson
2009 Roman Verostko