 This won the first Academy Award for a James Bond movie. It was for  Best Sound Effects and it was won by Norman Wanstall (qv).  _Thunderball (1965)_ (qv) won a Special Visual Effects Oscar the  following year and producer Albert R. Broccoli (qv) was awarded  the Irving Thalberg (qv) Award in 1982. Ironically, the gilded  Oscar statuette and the gilded girl in the film have such an uncanny  resemblance making Goldfinger fittingly the first Bond movie to  receive an Oscar.