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Website. oscars .org. 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 .
Dec 3, 2023 · Academy Award for Best Visual Effects History. OSCAR BEST VISUAL EFFECTS WINNERS. 1938: Spawn of the North. 1939: The Rains Came. 1940: The Thief of Bagdad. 1941: I Wanted Wings. 1942: Reap the Wild Wind. 1943: Crash Dive. 1944: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. 1945: Wonder Man. 1946: Blithe Spirit. 1947: Green Dolphin Street. 1948: Portrait of Jennie.
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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 5, 2014 · 67th Academy Awards (1994): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST PICTURE. Forrest Gump – Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey. Four Weddings and a Funeral – Duncan Kenworthy. Pulp Fiction – Lawrence Bender. Quiz Show – Robert Redford, Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozik. The Shawshank Redemption – Niki Marvin.
The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.
