« 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.
