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Dec 3, 2023 · In this article, we’ll take you on a cinematic journey through the full list of Academy Award winners for Best VFX and highlight the top 10 films that have left an indelible mark on the history of cinema with their astonishing visual effects. Let’s dive in.
The 81st Academy Awards | 2009. Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. Sunday, February 22, 2009. Honoring movies released in 2008.
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.
Feb 13, 2017 · Every Single Movie That Won the Oscar for Visual Effects, in One Video. From War of the Worlds to Ex Machina, through Jurassic Park and plenty of other beloved flicks. By Darren Orf...
- Darren Orf
- Contributing Editor
- “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 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most outstanding visual effects in film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first recognized the technical contributions of special effects to movies at its inaugural dinner in 1928...
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Feb 17, 2020 · Many of the highest-grossing films of all time feature groundbreaking visual effects, such as Avengers: Endgame, Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It's no surprise that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors films with awe-inspiring special effects with an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
