The category of best visual effects at the Oscars gives blockbusters a chance to shine. These 10 films may have taken a ...

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, ...

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 ...

Animation on this year's shortlists is way down after a banner year in 2025. Only 'Golden' from 'KPop Demon Hunters' appears ...

For more than a decade, Jordan Catracchia has been working at the cutting edge of Hollywood visual effects, helping bring some of the most ambitious cinematic worlds of the modern era to life.

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 ...

The film is a rare animated feature that made this season’s visual effects Academy Award shortlist. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor It’s unusual to see an animated movie make the visual effects ...

The Oscar-nominated "The Irishman" has been about ten years in the making. The movie, with its famed director Martin Scorsese and legendary actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, features ...

For Good also matched up with shortlisting in cinematography, makeup, and hairstyling, casting, original score, sound, visual ...

The team behind Avatar: The Way of Water‘s long-expected Oscar win for Visual Effects learned first-hand how committed Academy officials and show producers are to keeping things moving. Richard ...

1982 was a spectacular year for film in general, and a landmark year for science fiction and cinematic visual effects, with classics like Blade Runner, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Star Trek II: ...