LOS ANGELES—The Visual Effects Society (VES) has named Emmy Award-winning actor-producer Hiroyuki Sanada as the recipient of the VES Award for Creative Excellence and Academy Award-winning director ...

Update (Dec. 11): Variety has been able to confirm through multiple sources that Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror film “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, has made the internal top ...

Best Visual Effects commentary (Updated Feb. 26, 2025): The best visual effects category has long been where the Academy honors the boundary-pushing work of digital artists, practical effects wizards, ...

The film is a rare animated feature that made this season’s visual effects Academy Award shortlist. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor It’s unusual to see an animated movie make the visual effects ...

His other credits included 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Ant-Man and the Wasp,' 'Men in Black: International' and 'Jungle Cruise,' and he received the VES Founders Award last year.

And more history was made, as "Minus One" is the first film in Godzilla's 70-year franchise to win or be nominated for an Oscar, period. Yet even more history was by the Toho Studios production on ...

The category is particularly head-scratching when looking at the history of winners at the Oscars. Since the expanded Best Picture era began in 2010, eight of the last 14 winners came from Best ...

F0r almost as long as there have been movies in theaters, there’s been a need for special visual effects to bring them to life. However, it wasn’t until 1938 that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...

Another year, another money-making Marvel movie in the running to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects. This time around it’s “Deadpool and Wolverine,” the third film in Ryan Reynolds‘ ...