The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony is coming up in just a few more weeks (review all of the nominees). As part of a final countdown, The Academy has been releasing a series of video showcases breaking ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team behind Avatar: The Way of Water‘s long-expected Oscar win for Visual Effects learned first-hand how committed Academy officials and show producers are to keeping things moving. Richard ...

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 ...