Special Achievement for Visual Effects (1974) Remember the movie Earthquake? Of course not. It's garbage. Disaster-themed garbage wrapped in dated special effects and tied up with a bow made of bad acting. It's easy to excuse this winning a Special Achievement for Visual Effects because it was 1974 and this was really top shelf stuff in its day. But looking at every other aspect of the movie just turns the whole idea of it receiving any type of award into a major bummer. Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner couldn't save an incredibly (and unintentionally) stupid script with nothing but by-the-numbers set pieces. Even more ridiculous than Earthquake winning any kind of special achievement is the fact that this was actually nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Picture. This movie shouldn't be nominated for a Best Picture award (in any category) unless there were somehow fewer than five movies released in that same year. And even then...
