Professor Terzopoulos is the recipient of a 2005 Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his pioneering work on physics-based computer graphics for motion pictures. From the IEEE, he received the Computer Pioneer Award in 2020 and, in 2007, he was the inaugural recipient of the Computer Vision Distinguished Researcher Award "For his pioneering and sustained research on Deformable Models and their applications". 'Deformable Models', a term he coined, appears in the 2017 IEEE Taxonomy (Systems engineering and theory -> Modeling -> Deformable models). His other citations include an award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1987 for his work on deformable models in vision, a Helmholtz Prize in 2013 and a Marr Prize citation in 1987 from the IEEE for his work on active contours (snakes), an award from NICOGRAPH in 1996 for his work on human facial modeling and animation, two awards from Computers & Graphics in 2002 for his work on dynamic virtual humans and deformable models in medical image analysis, two citations from the International Medical Informatics Association in 1999 and 2003 for his work on model-based medical image analysis and an award from NVIDIA and the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society in 2018 for his work on deep-learning-based medical image analysis, a citation from SAE International in 2006 for his work on autonomous virtual humans, awards from the International Digital Media Foundation in 1994 and from Ars Electronica (the premier competition for creative work with digital media) in 1995 for his work on artificial animals for computer animation and virtual reality, and six University of Toronto Arts and Science Excellence Awards. The Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society cited him for his "outstanding contributions to research and education in image understanding" with its Young Investigator Award (1998) as well as its lifetime achievement Award for Research Excellence (2015).