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, ...

Best Visual Effects is one of my personal favorite Oscar categories, but this year it’s one without a single Best Picture nominee in the bunch, which isn’t that uncommon — it happened most recently in ...

Iorek Byrnison siding with Lyra in The Golden Compass (2007) - New Line Cinema When it comes to the Oscars, typically the most high-profile categories get the attention. There are still discussions ...

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 ...

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 ...

The visual effects Oscar race was narrowed down to 10 shortlisted movies in mid-December. And next, branch members will be ...

The category is particularly head-scratching when looking at the history of winners at the Oscars. Since the expanded Best Picture era began in 2010, eight of the last 14 winners came from Best ...

And more history was made, as "Minus One" is the first film in Godzilla's 70-year franchise to win or be nominated for an Oscar, period. Yet even more history was by the Toho Studios production on ...

His other credits included 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Ant-Man and the Wasp,' 'Men in Black: International' and 'Jungle Cruise,' and he received the VES Founders Award last year.