Best Visual Effects is one of my personal favorite Oscar categories, but this year it’s one without a single Best Picture nominee in the bunch, which isn’t that uncommon — it happened most recently in ...

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 ...

And now it’s time for the populist Oscar category, best visual effects. This is the one where you are most likely to see the highest grossing films of the year or, as some people might say, the movies ...

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 ...

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” won Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature, the top feature prize at the 23rd Annual Visual Effects Society Awards and the one that most closely ...

Since 2000 there have only been three exceptions to the rule. In 2004 “Spider-Man 2” won Best Visual Effects over “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and “I, Robot”; none of those films had a ...

Richard King, Gareth John and Ron Bartlett accept the award for best sound for ‘Dune: Part Two.’ (Chris Pizzello/Associated Press) The ominous noises and rampaging sandworms of the desert planet ...

Sunday, the Japanese monster movie that snuck up on American audiences and became one of the top-grossing international films in history, won the only Oscar for which it was nominated, taking home the ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...