Complex sentence: He won a special Academy Award for Perlin noise in 1997, although "Tron" was denied the 1982 Academy Award for visual effects, because it "cheated" by using computer-generated imagery.
Split into simpler sentences: He won a special Academy Award for Perlin noise in 1997. Interestingly, "Tron" was denied the 1982 Academy Award for visual effects, because it "cheated" by using computer-generated imagery.