"It was our biggest season to date in terms of VFX for sure, both in shot count and our budget," says "The Umbrella Academy" visual effects supervisor Everett Burrell about the third season of the ...

Best Visual Effects commentary (Updated Feb. 26, 2025): The best visual effects category has long been where the Academy honors the boundary-pushing work of digital artists, practical effects wizards, ...

LOS ANGELES—The Visual Effects Society (VES) has named Emmy Award-winning actor-producer Hiroyuki Sanada as the recipient of the VES Award for Creative Excellence and Academy Award-winning director ...

F0r almost as long as there have been movies in theaters, there’s been a need for special visual effects to bring them to life. However, it wasn’t until 1938 that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...

Update (Dec. 11): Variety has been able to confirm through multiple sources that Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror film “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, has made the internal top ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 81st Academy Awards. They are “Australia,” “The Curious ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 82nd Academy Awards. Expected frontrunners ...

The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony is coming up in just a few more weeks (review all of the nominees). As part of a final countdown, The Academy has been releasing a series of video showcases breaking ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Here’s The Academy’s write-up of the revised shortlist, followed by the list itself: Ten films ...