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, ...

Avatar: Fire and Ash' leads the way with 10 nominations for the 2026 VES Awards from the Visual Effects Society as 'Stranger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has released the shortlists for 10 categories in the Oscars race for 2024, and “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked” have landed on the shortlists for Makeup ...

1982 was a spectacular year for film in general, and a landmark year for science fiction and cinematic visual effects, with classics like Blade Runner, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Star Trek II: ...