Friday
Dec162016
Oscar's Visual Effects Race, Round Two
Friday, December 16, 2016 at 6:42PM The Academy has spoken and they've axed half of the semi-finalist for visual effects so we're down to just 10 films competing for the five nominations. It's the only bad news Deadpool has received all week after great showings at the Globe and Critics Choice and the only good news Passengers has gotten considering its excoriating reviews. The list is now like so...
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Arrival
- The BFG
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Captain America: Civil War
- Deadpool
- Deepwater Horizon
- Doctor Strange
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Independence Day: Resurgence
- The Jungle Book
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Passengers
- Rogue One
- Star Trek Beyond
- Suicide Squad
- Sully
- Warcraft
- X-Men Apocalypse
But nothing has changed really since this race is surely a battle to the finish between Doctor Strange and The Jungle Book. One assumes the disturbing CGI humans in Rogue One won't help it win.
Reader Comments (14)
Prediction:
Arrival
Doctor Strange
Fantastic Beasts
The Jungle Book
Rogue One
My prayer circle to get SULLY out of this race worked! That it made even the first bake-off round turned me into Glenn Close in the final shot of DANGEROUS LIAISONS
Arrival's strength will come from a a nom here due to the subtlty of the SFX.
Of these ten, I'd guess:
1. Doctor Strange
2. The Jungle Book
3. Arrival
4. Captain America: Civil War
5. Kubo and the Two Strings
I've never quite understood why they reveal semi-finalists like this for this category ... can anyone explain to me why this is done? Or why it makes any kind of sense?
Philip H: It doesn't. I get what the idea MIGHT be (have an official quarter finalist list to get pared down, partially internally, partially due to external pressure from Internet commentary), but if you're going to try that, why not expand to other categories?
Press. That's why. Or rather, attention from the awards-obsessed community.
I actually can see the disturbing humans in Rogue One viewed by some as an outstanding achievement of technology or something like that. Even then, I think they'll be too controversial to earn the win against the Jungle Book animals.
Do you mean the CGI Cushing.
Volvagia: The Academy used to reveal shortlists (10 titles) in various technical categories in the 1960s and 1970s. The music ones can be found online. I'd love to see the others, but apart from the occasional reference in an old article from Variety, I haven't been able to find them yet.
"The Jungle Book" animals were truly amazing
Nevertheless, I think Rogue One is best in show of all the chosen here. The Jungle Book might be a favorite too but I really doubt a Marvel movie will be close to winning this, not until the next movies reuniting all the heros. If Winter Soldier and The Avengers failed to win this, I doubt Doctor Strange will be able to do it.
Pablo: Um...you do know that Doctor Strange, if it's praised for anything, it's, most consistently, for being a feast for the eyes?
The Jungle Book has probably the Oscar in the bag, already. Doctor Strange's are visually fascinanting but nothing as groundbreaking as it seems at the first glance.
Deadpool should have made the cut, objectively speaking, if only for the whole bridge fight sequence (was there anything real? Can we really tell?) and with a highlight on those amazing credit scene.
it is still my fave film of the year, I shamelessly admit it. The only one that keeps me asking for more, more and more, even thought I originally despised the character, in the comic-books... that's a true achievement by Reynolds and the creative team of the fim adaptation. I kind of hated the character, till I saw the film.