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Dec 3, 2023 · In selecting the top 10 movies that have won the "Best Visual Effects" award at the Oscars, we’ll consider the innovation, artistry, and impact these films had on the VFX industry and their contribution to cinematic storytelling.
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The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.
- We see you… And just like 13 years ago, Avatar: The Way of Water is the winner! Congratulations to Wētā FX and all the VFX creatives that brought a mesmerizing story to our screens.
- And the winner is... Dune! Congratulations to DNEG and all the VFX creatives involved in the retelling of this beloved sci-fi epic! Led by Production VFX Supervisor Paul Lambert, alongside VFX Supervisors Tristan Myles and Brian Connor, the VFX elements in Dune were meticulously designed to immerse audiences into the dystopian world based on Frank Herbert’s novel.
- Tenet. This sci-fi, action-adventure sees another Oscar win for Christopher Nolan and the fantastic DNEG VFX team. With six wins in the past ten years, the creatives at DNEG played an integral part in executing the film's complex time-traveling narrative.
- 1917. Creating the illusion that 1917 had been captured in one continuous shot proved no easy feat, but VFX supervisor Guillaume Rocheron and his team at Moving Picture Company rose to the challenge, digitally stitching together scores of invisible moments and creating entire digital environments from scratch to win over worthy contenders such as The Lion King and The Irishman.
- It Had An Identity Crisis
- There Were Plenty of Firsts
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- It Had Its Own Dynasty
- Aliens Broke Its Glass Ceiling
- These Are The Rules
- It Had A Kubrick Dilemma
- Animation Has Representation
- It Had Some ‘Off’ Years
Despite a long list of films from the Golden Age of Hollywood that made innovative use of visual effects, it wasn’t until 1964 that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave visual effects its own, dedicated category at the Academy Awards ceremony. Prior to that year, the Academy Awards honored various films with the Special Achievement ...
During the very first Academy Awards ceremony, held in 1929, the silent film Wings won both the inaugural Best Picture category and the award in the Best Engineering Effects category, which would eventually evolve into the modern Best Visual Effects category. Almost a decade later, 1938’s Spawn of the North was given the first Special Achievement A...
The first race to win the Academy Award in the Best Visual Effects category was a two-film competition, pitting two of Hollywood’s most acclaimed filmmakers against each other. The nominees in the category that year were George Lucas’ genre-defining space opera Star Wars and Steven Spielberg’s thrilling extraterrestrial drama Close Encounters of th...
Among all the nominees and winners in the Best Visual Effects category over the years, one name is a recurring presence: Dennis Muren. Beginning with 1980’s Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, which earned the visual effects artist his first Academy Award, Muren has won eight Academy Awards in the Best Visual Effects category and been n...
The 1987 Academy Awards ceremony was notable for featuring the first woman nominated in the Best Visual Effects category, Suzanne M. Benson, who went on to take home an Oscar for her work on James Cameron’s Aliens. Only three other women have been nominated in the category since Benson’s win: Pamela Easley for the 1993 thriller Cliffhanger, Sara Be...
The criteria and rules surrounding the Best Visual Effectscategory have changed at various points over the years, allowing for different numbers of nominees, named individuals, and other elements. The current rules regarding the category were updated in 2010, and allow for 10 “shortlist” finalists identified several weeks before the nominations are...
Despite an acclaimed career as a director, Stanley Kubrick’s only Academy Award was won in the Best Special Visual Effects category for 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. At the time, most films submitted just one name to represent the collective work of the special effects team, so Kubrick was nominated for 2001 instead of the film’s four-person effect...
Three fully animated films have been nominated in the Best Visual Effects category over the years, beginning with stop-motion adventure The Nightmare Before Christmas in 1994. More than two decades later, another stop-motion film was nominated in the category: 2016’s Kubo and the Two Strings. Three years later, Disney’s remake of The Lion Kingalso ...
Although the Best Visual Effectscategory has typically been very competitive over the last few decades, the 1991 Academy Awards ceremony was one of several in which there were no official visual effects nominees. It wasn’t due to any lack of potential nominees, either. Of the four films under consideration for a nomination that year — Back to the F...
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Feb 17, 2020 · The history of the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, including notable winners like Dennis Muren, Stanley Kubrick, and Ken Ralston.
Category. : Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners. Individuals that have been awarded the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .
