"The Abyss", the First Film to Win an Academy Award for Computer Generated Images

In 1989 The Abyss, a science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment, Santa Monica, California, featuring complex computer generated images (CGI)—most notably a seawater creature dubbed the pseudopod—became the first film to win the Academy Award for Visual Effects produced through CGI. The pseudopod was the first computer generated three-dimensional (3D) character.