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Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 84th Academy Awards®.
The films are listed below in alphabetical order:
- “Captain America: The First Avenger”
- “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
- “Hugo”
- “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
- “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
- “Real Steel”
- “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
- “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
- “The Tree of Life”
- “X-Men: First Class”
All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the 10 shortlisted films on Thursday, January 19. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
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Super 8 bites the dust…
As does Thor, which I was predicting to make it in. If we’re assuming that Rise, Potter, and Hugo are going to be nominees, what will take the last two spots? I think it’s between Captain America, Real Steel, Trannies 3, and of course Tree of Life.
Yup, that’s pretty much what I’m thinking too. Tree is the wildcard, but I think will get in since the Academy does like one nominee that’s not as loud as the others, like Hereafter last year.
I never thought super 8 would make it. The train sequence was great but the main monster was noticeably cgi and not near as good cgi as years past. We live in a post avatar world so the effects people have to step it up. Glad about ghost protocol and tree of life still in the mix.
The post Avatar world still nominated Alice in Wonderland, Hereafter, and Iron Man 2, which hardly moved the industry forward. Don’t discount the vote going to less showy effects. Super 8 was never going to win, but it was as good or better than some of the contenders still around. It’s just a matter of industry preference.
i’m still getting the vibe that Rise is the frontrunner here, which bugs me a lot. at no point in that movie did i find a single effect truly convincing – i never believed there were apes on the screen. i rewatched HP7 the other night, and found the dragon alone to be more convincing than a single thing in Rise (human performances included).
I am going to say this…
“Captain America: The First Avenger”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Alternates:
“Hugo”
“Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”