Congratulations to all the nominees!
The Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the 97th Academy Awards was awarded to Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer).
Here was the acceptance speech:
Paul Lambert: Thank you once again to the Academy. Thanks to Brice Parker, Jason Garber, our amazing cast and crew, all my fellow haitre d’s, producers, production, Legendary, Warner Brothers, DNEG, Wylie Co., Rodeo, Territory, the incredible MPC, and of course our visionary director Denis Villeneuve. To my wonderful wife Mags and my two boys Boston and Jackson, who are again sat up there in the roof. Thank you.
Stephen James: Thank you to everyone at DNEG and all of their families, and this is dedicated to Linda. Thank you.
Gerd Nefzer: [Speaks German] Denis, thank you. Big thank you to my wife and my family, my daughter Janna, my son Luca, my mother Elke, my father-in-law Karl, who brought me in this business 38 years ago. What a great evening.
Here are the other nominees.
Alien: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan)
Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke)
Wicked (Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould)
