{"id":14475,"date":"2012-02-21T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14475"},"modified":"2012-02-21T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:19:09","slug":"84th-academy-awards-visual-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/21\/84th-academy-awards-visual-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"84th Academy Awards: Visual Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14444\" title=\"84th Academy Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOMINEES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_%E2%80%93_Part_2\">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Tim Burke (visual effects supervisor)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Burke_(visual_effects_supervisor)\">Tim Burke<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"David Vickery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Vickery\">David Vickery<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Greg Butler\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Butler\">Greg Butler<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"John Richardson (special effects designer)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Richardson_(special_effects_designer)\">John Richardson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Hugo (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_(film)\">Hugo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Rob Legato\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rob_Legato\">Rob Legato<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Joss Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joss_Williams\">Joss Williams<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Ben Grossmann\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Grossmann\">Ben Grossmann<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Alex Henning\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Henning\">Alex Henning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Real Steel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Real_Steel\">Real Steel<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Erik Nash\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erik_Nash\">Erik Nash<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"John Rosengrant\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Rosengrant\">John Rosengrant<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Danny Gordon Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Gordon_Taylor\">Danny Gordon Taylor<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Swen Gillberg\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swen_Gillberg\">Swen Gillberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rise_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes\">Rise of the Planet of the Apes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Joe Letteri\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Letteri\">Joe Letteri<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Dan Lemmon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_Lemmon\">Dan Lemmon<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"R. Christopher White\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R._Christopher_White\">R. Christopher White<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Daniel Barrett (visual effects supervisor)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Barrett_(visual_effects_supervisor)\">Daniel Barrett<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Transformers: Dark of the Moon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon\">Transformers: Dark of the Moon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Scott Farrar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Farrar\">Scott Farrar<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Scott Benza\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Benza\">Scott Benza<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Matthew E. Butler\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_E._Butler\">Matthew E. Butler<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"John Frazier\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Frazier\">John Frazier<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although one might think that this is a relatively new category, it actually dates back to the very first Oscar ceremony\u00a0when the Academy gave an award for &#8216;Best Engineering Effects&#8217; to the World War I flying drama\u00a0<a title=\"Wings (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wings_(film)\">Wings<\/a>\u00a0(1927).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Willis O'Brien\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willis_O%27Brien\">Willis O&#8217;Brien<\/a>&#8216;s animation work in\u00a0<a title=\"King Kong (1933 film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_Kong_(1933_film)\">King Kong<\/a>\u00a0(1933) raised the profile of visual effects but it wasn&#8217;t until 1938 \u00a0that\u00a0<a title=\"Spawn of the North\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spawn_of_the_North\">Spawn of the North<\/a>\u00a0was awarded a special achievement award.<\/p>\n<p>From 1938 onwards Special Effects became a category, but until 1962 visual effects were shared with sound effects nominations in a combined category.<\/p>\n<p>From 1964 until\u00a01971, the name of the category was Best Special Visual Effects, but after 1977 was changed to Best Visual Effects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS &#8211; PART 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ApwyY8b5fcA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7bMM8UP6HVU\">BAFTA interview with\u00a0Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, and John Richardson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/doublenegativevfx\">Double Negative on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HUGO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/umwSqT5m9io\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2012\/01\/pixomondo-hugo-vfx\/\">Wired article on the processing power needed for the VFX in Hugo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmagazine.com\/Video-Center\/Gallery\/Audio-Interview-with-Hugos-Rob-Legato.aspx\">Post Magazine interview with VFX supervisor Rob Legato<\/a>\u00a0[53 mins]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-lAo-fPh58s?t=2m43s\">Video interview with Rob Legato at the VES awards<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REAL STEEL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DalSLwY1_vc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxguide.com\/featured\/real-steel-case-study-in-cgi-live-action-integration\/\">FX Guide on how Digital Domain integrated live action with CGI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5gAC51MwkU\">VFX supervisor Erik Nash talks about the robot boxing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XM9Pvfq1KhE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=96SNBrcSYDE\">WETA live event on the VFX<\/a> [26 mins]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxguide.com\/fxpodcasts\/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-the-eyes-have-it\/\">FX Guide podcast interview with Dan Lemmon<\/a> on WETA&#8217;swork\u00a0[40 mins]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6X2PfMbkb6c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/transformers-dark-moons-powerful-visual-208967\">The Hollywood Reporter with 5 facts about ILM&#8217;s visual effects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxguide.com\/featured\/dark-of-the-moon-ilms-magic-in-3d\/\">FX Guide interview with Scott Farrar of ILM<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official Oscar site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects\">Explore previous winners of Best Visual Effects at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominees include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Hugo, Real Steel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Transformers: Dark of the Moon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}