Awards
ACM SIGGRAPH awards exceptional achievements
Each year, ACM SIGGRAPH presents nine awards recognizing exceptional achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques at the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference. The selection process is the responsibility of seven committees and is supervised by the awards chair.
Awards Committee Chair
Awards
Steven Anson Coons Award
Recognizing outstanding creative contributions to computer graphics honouring an individual’s lifetime contribution.
Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Recognizing outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Significant New Researcher Award
Recognizing a recent, significant contribution to the field of computer graphics from a researcher new to the field.
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Recognizing a recent doctoral candidate who has successfully defended and completed their Ph.D. dissertation in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Outstanding Service Award
Recognizing a career of outstanding service to ACM SIGGRAPH by a volunteer.
Distinguished Artist Award
Recognizing an artist who has created a substantial and important body of work that significantly advances aesthetic content in the field of digital art.
Practitioner Award
Recognizing outstanding contributions to the practice and advancement of Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
Distinguished Educator Award
Recognizing outstanding pedagogical contributions to computer graphics and interactive techniques at any educational level or within the context of any discipline.
ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
Honoring a group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of computer graphics and whose efforts have shaped the disciplines and/or industry, and led the research and/or innovation in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Current Recipients
Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics
Leo Guibas
For his numerous and broad contributions to computational geometry, geometric learning, and global illumination.
Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Alexei Efros
For pioneering work in data-driven and machine learning approaches to a wide range of visual content generation, computational photography, and image and video editing tasks.
Significant New Researcher Award
Lingjie Liu
For outstanding contributions to neural representations and human performance animation.
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Guy Tevet
For pioneering a unified framework for human motion generation, combining text-guided animation through diffusion models with semantic control and physically realistic character motion.
The Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
Claudia Hart
In recognition of her decades-long, internationally influential contributions to digital art, media theory, and experimental practice.
ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award
Florian Kainz
For his foundational role in developing the OpenEXR high-dynamic-range image format and for his pioneering contributions to the field of computational photography.
ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award
James Foley
In recognition of his pioneering work and sustained innovation in the fields of Computer Graphics, HCI and Information Visualization.