Oscars for best visual effects: Oppenheimer is not even in the 20 finalists
On the other hand, Barbie, Mission: Impossible 7 and Ant-Man: Quantumania are pre-selected.
Although the blockbuster is equipped with more effects “practice” only digital, the absence of the atomic bomb Oppenheimer in the list of finalists competing for the Oscar for best visual effects surprises. Especially since he won’t be able to face his best friend/enemy barbieof Greta Gerwig. The biopic joins the bench of the excluded alongside Ferrari, Shazam 2, The little Mermaid, Blue Beetle And In (very) troubled waters.
Is it because Universal didn’t want to submit it to voters? Throughout its promotion, emphasis was placed on the fact that Christopher Nolan had wanted minimize visual effects for this film. But he still used it to recreate certain visions ofOppenheimer. We also note that Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – part 1 is very present, while Paramount still focuses on Tom Cruise’s stunts to promote this saga, and not on its VFX.
Variety has exclusively learned that the finalists for visual effects include barbie of Greta Gerwig, Poor Creatures of Yorgos Lanthimos, Rebel Moon of Zack Snyder and the only animated film in the running, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
The 20 films will be put to the vote, which will take place from December 14 to 18. Ten films will be nominated on December 21, as well as nine other categories. The five nominees will be determined after voting from January 11 to 16, and the names will be announced on January 23 in all categories.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the only animated film on the list. The Sony project hopes to join large-scale works such as: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Kubo and the Magic Armor (2016) among the only animated films to be nominated in the visual effects category.
Searchlight Pictures can celebrate the entry of Poor Creatures in the list, thanks to the unusual nature of the film’s images, psychedelic and atypical, accompanied by the exceptional performances ofEmma Stone and of Mark Ruffaloin a tenderly out-of-tune duet.
Surprises include the sports drama of George Clooney adapted from the biographical novel They were one man (of Daniel James Brown) titled The Boys in the Boat from Amazon MGM and the Dantesque Godzilla: Minus One of Takashi Yamazaki.
The 96th ceremony of Oscars will take place on Sunday March 10, 2024. The Academy of Oscars declined to confirm the list, available below:
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