 In 1979, Mark accepted a special Academy Award for Technical Achievement"" For the progressive development of the Moviola from the 1924 invention of his father, Iwan Serrurier, to the present Series 20 sophisticated film editing equipment"".He only accepted after insisting that his late father's name would also appear on the statue.The Oscar sat on Mark's kitchen table until his death from Alzheimer's disease on Valentine's Day 1988.