In nuce: So they’ve been awarded, the trophies of the 94th Academy Awards. If we were the society section of your lifestyle magazine of choice, we would now be working our way through Will Smith and Jessica Chastain’s inspiring acceptance speech, but as a specialist medium for visual effects, we are of course primarily interested in which films won the prestigious film prize in categories such as “Animated Feature Film”, “Cinematography”, “Film Editing” or “Production Design”.
What are the big winners among the visual effects films? Disney’s “Encanto” was able to position itself as the winner in the “Animated Feature Film” category, beating off competition from the co-nominees, consisting of the animated documentary “Flee”, the Pixar film “Luca”, the Netflix film “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” and Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon”.
The sci-fi blockbuster of 2021 – now also an Oscar contender? However, the mega-success that also ensured multiple cinema visits within our editorial team is Denis Villeneuve’s remake of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel Dune. In the course of their work on this major sci-fi project, Greig Fraser was honoured for Best Cinematography, Joe Walker for Best Film Editing, Hans Zimmer for Best Original Score and Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos for Best Production Design, Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett for Best Sound and – our Muad’Dib ears pricked up – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer were honoured for Best Visual Effects. So the bottom line is that “Dune” collected perhaps the most coveted film award in the (western) world six times.
Click further: Click through the complete list of winners and nominees at oscars.org. If you want to find out how Paul Lambert (VFX Supervisor), Brian Connor (Visual Effects Supervisor) and Tristan Myles (Visual Effects Supervisor) managed to capture Muad’Dib, Shai Hulud and other Arrakis creatures on cinema screens, click (and read) through our detailed interview from DP 01 : 2022, which we have made available to you today as part of our series of retro articles (although less retro, and more topical).
