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Here Are The Twenty Finalists for the Best Visual Effects Oscar
Moments ago, Variety revealed the finalists for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The twenty films you see below will compete for the Oscar, while movies like Cocaine Bear, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Oppenheimer, and more are now out of the running. The finalists include many of the expected […] More
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VFX Artists Are Mad as Hell and They’re Not Gonna Take It, Anymore
Well, it happened last week. Earlier this year, I made an observation about the then-upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in the lead-up to its release, not realizing at the time that it would be the absolute worst Marvel Cinematic Universe feature film I have yet seen: Why does the CGI of older Marvel movies […] More
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The Top 25 Best Visual Effects Winners So Far (Updated for 2023)
Another week, another new list coming your way! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll be relegated […] More
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The Top 25 Best Visual Effects Winners So Far (Updated)
Another week, another list coming your way! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll be relegated to […] More
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Academy Reveals Shortlists for Ten Categories!
Just a few moments ago, the Academy revealed their ten shortlists for the 94th Oscars. Now, we know which films are advancing in the following categories: Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short Subject, Best International Feature Film, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Animated Short Film, Best Live Action Short […] More
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The Top 25 Best Visual Effects Winners So Far
Folks, we’re back at it! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll be relegated to the Honorable […] More
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in Op-ed
Before the Gold: Best Visual Effects
This month we’re taking a look at this year’s Oscar nominees and digging into their past work to find hidden gems that you may have overlooked, or specific credits that may have influenced their Oscar-nominated work this year. This year’s Best Achievement in Visual Effects nominees have a wide range of credits, from Game of […] More
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Top Prize at the Visual Effects Society Awards Goes To ‘The Midnight Sky’
The Visual Effects Society (VES) have handed out their winners for the best achievements in film, television, and more, with the top prize perhaps being a bit of a surprise. While Tenet was presumed to be the frontrunner for their biggest award of the night, Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature, the win actually went to George […] More
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in Interviews
Interview: Director David France and Visual Effects Supervisor Ryan Laney on Shielding Activists with Technology in ‘Welcome to Chechnya’
It’s unusual to see a documentary on the Oscar shortlist for Best Visual Effects, but that’s intrinsic to what Welcome to Chechnya is all about. The film, which follows LGBTQ activists fighting for their lives against an oppressive regime intent on denying their very existence, is also a finalist for Best Documentary Feature. Awards Radar […] More
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in Editor, Interviews
Interview: Bryan Cranston, Danny DeVito, and the VFX Artists Talk ‘The One and Only Ivan’
The One and Only Ivan is one of the more impressive visual feats of 2020. The visual effects that brings Ivan the Gorilla (voiced by Sam Rockwell) to life are just spectacular. The same goes for Bob the dog (voiced by Danny DeVito) and many more. In fact, aside from Bryan Cranston, nearly every character […] More
