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Dec 3, 2023 · Best Visual Effects Oscar List. 10. The Matrix (1999) Heat Shootout Scene vs. The Matrix Lobby Shootout • Subscribe on YouTube. This groundbreaking film introduced the revolutionary "bullet-time" effect, which allowed for slow-motion action sequences with a unique, 360-degree perspective.
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects. It has been handed to four members of the team directly responsible for creating the film's visual effects since 1980.
- “The Golden Compass”
- “1917”
- “Gladiator”
- “Godzilla Minus One”
- “Ex Machina”
- “Life of Pi”
- “Tenet”
- “First Man”
- “Hugo”
- “Spider-Man 2”
“The Golden Compass” had a visual effects challenge built into its story: a world in which each human has a personal daemon, in animal form, that is a physical representation of their souls. The daemons were 3D animation created by Rhythm & Hues, guided by production visual effect supervisor Michael Fink, that had to crack animal-human interaction,...
Sam Mendes’ single-shot World War I extravaganza pulled off a major upset by beating “The Lion King” for the VFX Oscar. It was especially surprising since its role was supporting. Production supervised by Guillaume Rocheron of MPC, the special effects and visual effects played an integral role by continually following the characters on their intens...
In 2000, Ridley Scott revived the sword-and-sandals spectacle for a modern era by bringing cutting-edge digital technology to a genre that hadn’t graced American movie screens in decades (production supervised by John Nelson). Where filmmakers of the past were forced to spend gargantuan amounts of time and money on crowd scenes that utilized thousa...
“Godzilla Minus One” made Oscar history in 2024 as the first Japanese film to win the category for Toho. Additionally, director and VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki became the first director to win the category since Stanley Kubrick with “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The Kaiju actioner surprised everyone with its compelling post-war redemption story and ...
This list of recent VFX Oscar winners is filled with enormous movies – many of which are franchise films with bigger VFX budgets than the cost to make this A24 indie. And the 2015 release calendar was hardly light on big-name competition, including the visual effect nominees: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “The Revenant” (remember that bear?!), “M...
Just as the protagonist of “Life of Pi” finds a faith that is shaped by the values and mythologies of multiple religions, the look of the film drew from several currents of 21st-century technical innovations — and innovated them. Obviously, there is Suraj Sharma’s main scene partner, the tiger Richard Parker, alongside a collection of zoo animals t...
Christopher Nolan’s time-inverted thriller only contained 300 VFX shots, but it required Oscar-winning DNEG (production supervised by Andrew Jackson) to figure out how to execute the timing of moving forward and backward, so it fit together smoothly during fights and car chases. They utilized previs for the blocking of action and were on set to obs...
Damien Chazelle set out to redefine shooting in-camera for “First Man,” dramatizing NASA’s mission to the moon, with Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong. Production supervised by DNEG’s Oscar winner Paul Lambert (“Blade Runner 2049”), the work was a diverse mixture of visual effects, special effects, archival footage, and scaled models to help...
There is something so beautiful about how Scorsese’s love letter to the magic of Georges Méliès and the dawn of early cinema was rooted in an equally groundbreaking and magical combination of visual effects and 3D some 100 years later. The ability to seamlessly merge live action, CG set extension, and full animation — in visual effects work that wa...
Significantly, this sequel marks the last VFX Oscar winner for a superhero film. Overseen by production VFX supervisor John Dykstra, Sony Pictures Imageworks raised the bar in integrating live-action and CG. Tobey Maguire’s Spidey suit was improved through a series of better cloth simulations that blended together, and the digi-double had more beli...
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- The Rains Came (1939) “The Rains Came” is a drama film directed by Clarence Brown. It was released in 1939 and is based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bromfield.
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940) “The Thief of Bagdad” is an adventure fantasy film directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan. It was released in 1940 and is a colorful and imaginative retelling of the classic Arabian Nights tale.
- I Wanted Wings (1941) “I Wanted Wings” is a war drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and released in 1941. The film stars Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, and Veronica Lake.
- Reap the Wild Wind (1942) “Reap the Wild Wind” is an adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was released in 1942 and stars Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, and Susan Hayward.
Mar 11, 2024 · Oscar-winning visual effects from "Godzilla Minus One". Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima accepted the award at the ceremony. Their team created Godzilla Minus ...
Apr 25, 2022 · So, Best Visual Effects is the field that’s in the barrel today. This category is a bit of an Oscar outlier, considering a lot of the films that win aren’t Best Picture contenders. There are exceptions, including 1917 , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Dunkirk , First Man , Forrest Gump , Gladiator , Gravity , Inception , Life of Pi , and Titanic , to be sure (plus our most recent ...
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Feb 13, 2017 · Almost every single James Cameron film is here. Though it was technically first given out in 1928 to the first Best Picture-winning film, Wings, the Oscar for Best Visual Effects was a special ...
