The ten films still in contention for the 96th Academy Award for Best Visual Effects have been announced.
Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 96th Academy Awards. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 13, 2024. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
“The Creator”
“Godzilla Minus One”
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”
“Napoleon”
“Poor Things”
“Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire”
“Society of the Snow”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Nominations voting begins on Thursday, January 11, 2024, and concludes on Tuesday, January 16, 2024.
Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2024.
The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Indy5 is the only film I’ve seen on that list and the VFX managed to take me out of every scene in the whole show. You’d get a ‘real’ shot or two, then reversal angles or wide shots that showed stuff that looked like it belonged in an old cd-rom game. And it just kept happening again and again. Given the defects in LAST CRUSADE, especially around the zepplin and plane crash stuff, I was relieved to see it didn’t get cited, but this makes CRUSADE look like BLADE RUNNER by comparison.
Why isn’t OPPENHEIMER on this list? Is the VFX credit list too short? Or do you need a certain quantity of shots to qualify, is it volume over quality now? (I don’t think I’ve ever used three ‘qua’ words in one sentence before, time to go back to bed.)
Hi Kevin, it’s definitely an interesting year for the Bake-Off, and I was surprised about Oppenheimer not being there, but there are probably a few factors to it, one being that there are something like just 200 VFX shots in that film. Still, a very interesting year.