Honoring Our Community

ACM SIGGRAPH Awards

ACM SIGGRAPH presents awards to recognize exceptional achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The awards were presented at the annual North American SIGGRAPH conference. For more information about the awards and the individuals honored, please visit the ACM SIGGRAPH awards page.

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Award Recipients

THE STEVEN ANSON COONS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CREATVIE CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Markus Gross
ETH Zürich, Disney Research

THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Doug L. James
Stanford University

THE SIGNIFICANT NEW RESEARCHER AWARD

Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
MIT, University of California, Berkeley

THE OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD

Minchen Li
University of Pennsylvania

Honorable Mention
David B. Lindell, Stanford University

THE OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD

Marc J. Barr

ACM SIGGRAPH PRACTITIONER AWARD

Brent Burley
Walt Disney Animation Studios

THE DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN DIGITAL ART

William Seaman
Duke University

ACM SIGGRAPH DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR AWARD

Barbara Mones
University of Washington

ACM SIGGRAPH ACADEMY

  • Norman Badler, University of Pennsylvania
  • Mathieu Desbrun, California Institute of Technology, Shanghai Tech University
  • Karen Liu, Stanford University