“Deepwater Horizon”, “Doctor Strange”, “The Jungle Book”, “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “Rogue One” battle to be crowned FX experts at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
Which FX extravaganza will take home the 2017 visual effects Oscar?
“La La Land”, “Arrival” and “Manchester by the Sea” might be slugging it out for multiple Oscars, but they’re not the only contenders at the 89th Academy Awards this Sunday.
A handful of sci-fi and fantasy films have made the shortlist for the best visual effects award, recognising the cutting-edge movie magic that made our eyes pop in 2016.
Will the award be rigged in favour of “Deepwater Horizon”? Can “Doctor Strange” conjure Marvel ‘s first Oscar? Perhaps the bear necessities will come to “The Jungle Book”, or maybe “Kubo and the Two Strings” will string out a win. Or will “Rogue One” prove a force to be reckoned with?
And the nominees are…
“Deepwater Horizon” recounts a horrifying true story.
It’s easy to assume that modern visual effects are all achieved at the click of a mouse, but sometimes you have to go old school. So for this true-life tale of a horrifying disaster on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig , the filmmakers built a vast tank of water in a Louisiana parking lot and plonked in a huge model of the Deepwater Horizon rig, 85 per cent of the size of the real thing.
People are strange: Benedict Cumberbatch is Marvel’s mystical medic.
Where other groundbreaking effects extravaganzas like “The Matrix” or “Inception” lean heavily on one or two big showpiece effects, “Doctor Strange” busts out a new eye-popping gimmick in every action sequence.
