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Matt Sweeney is a special effects artist who was nominated at the 68th Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects along with Leslie Ekker, Michael Kanfer and Robert Legato. They were nominated for their work on the film Apollo 13.[1]
Sweeney has received 3 Technical Achievement Awards at the Academy Awards.
- 59th Academy Awards: For the development of an automatic capsule gun for simulating bullet hits for motion picture special effects (with ).
- 70th Academy Awards: For the development and realization of Liquid Synthetic Air (with , and (of UCISCO); and to ).
- 74th Academy Awards: For the concept, design and realization of the "Mic Rig" (with )
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| 1982–2000 |
- Richard Edlund (1982)
- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Kit West (1983)
- Dennis Muren, George Gibbs, Michael J. McAlister and Lorne Peterson (1984)
- George Gibbs and Richard Conway (1985)
- Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson and Stan Winston (1986)
- Michael Lantieri, Michael Owens, Ed Jones and Bruce Walters (1987)
- George Gibbs, Richard Williams, Ken Ralston and Ed Jones (1988)
- Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley (1989)
- The special visual effects team of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1990)
- Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak (1991)
- Michael Lantieri, Ken Ralston, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Doug Chiang and Douglas Smythe (1992)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri (1993)
- Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, Doug Chiang and Allen Hall (1994)
- Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney and Leslie Ekker (1995)
- Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Henry LaBounta and Habib Zargarpour (1996)
- Mark Stetson, Karen Goulekas, Nick Allder, Neil Corbould and Nick Dudman (1997)
- Stefen Fangmeier, Roger Guyett and Neil Corbould (1998)
- John Gaeta, Steve Courtley, Janek Sirrs and Jon Thum (1999)
- Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti, Habib Zargarpour and Tim Alexander (2000)
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| 2001–present |
- Jim Rygiel, Richard Taylor, Alex Funke, Randall William Cook and Mark Stetson (2001)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2002)
- Joe Letteri, Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (2003)
- Karen Goulekas, Neil Corbould, Greg Strause and Remo Balcells (2004)
- Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hul and Richard Taylor (2005)
- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall (2006)
- Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood (2007)
- Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness and Edson Williams (2008)
- Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones (2009)
- Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb (2010)
- Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler and David Vickery (2011)
- Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron and Erik-Jan de Boer (2012)
- Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould and Nikki Penny (2013)
- Paul Franklin, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Ian Hunter (2014)
- Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh and Neal Scanlan (2015)
- Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez (2016)
- Richard R. Hoover, Paul Lambert, Gerd Nefzer and John Nelson (2017)
- Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack and Dan Sudick (2018)
- Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron and Dominic Tuohy (2019)
- Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley (2020)
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