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The Shortlist for Special FX Oscar Is Longer than Your Mom's Chin Hairs

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (13)

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Fifteen movies have been “short-listed” for the best special FX Oscar, and I’m sure you’re dying to know what 15 they are. Here’s a hint: The 15 of the 16 live-action movies with a lot of special effects this year (sorry, Twilight: Eclipse). How easy is it to get on the Oscar shortlist? The Last Airbender and Clash of the Titans made the list, and I couldn’t really tell you how good their special effects were because I couldn’t see through the shitty 3D conversion jobs.


  • Alice in Wonderland

  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

  • Clash of the Titans

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

  • Hereafter

  • Tron: Legacy

  • Iron Man 2

  • The Last Airbender

  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

  • Scott Pilgrim vs the World

  • Shutter Island

  • Inception

  • Unstoppable

  • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice









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    Comments

    Tron will win it.

    Posted by: figgy at December 13, 2010 9:35 AM

    • Won't Inception get it to make up for the other awards it won't receive? Just like Alice will win for production design categories because everyone knows Tim Burton couldn't direct a slinky down a flight of stairs, but he is the greatest production designer who ever lived.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 13, 2010 9:36 AM

    I say Inception. It'll be up for a number of Oscars but won't win any of the "real" ones, so it'll sweep the technical awards.

    Posted by: Todd at December 13, 2010 9:37 AM

    I believe that Harry Potter will NOT get it, because Voldemort's nose always looks fuzzy, like they erased it with a real eraser and it left a smudge on the film.

    Posted by: BWeaves at December 13, 2010 10:09 AM

    Go ahead. Invite all those special effects people to the Oscars. See what happens*.

    *I'll tell you what's gonna happen: Somebody's getting shot up in that motherfucker. These people make the rap feuds of the '90s look like a hand-shaking contest. I hear The Last Airbender crew started a Blood Feud with the Scott Pilgrim cholos. Something about "too much eye contact" and "disrespecting my bitches." So don't miss the Oscars this year, yo! It's gonna be hot like the barrel of my Fo-Fo after I smoke some fools!

    Posted by: Kballs at December 13, 2010 10:11 AM

    ^ Now THAT, I'd watch.

    Posted by: , at December 13, 2010 10:34 AM

    I'm amazed that Julie Taymor's The Tempest couldn't get shortlisted here while The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Last Airbender, and Percy Jackson... did. The only nice thing being said in reviews about The Tempest is the skill of the visual effects, which is more than the critics said for those other three films.

    I think Hereafter will surprise with a nomination in this category. The footage of the tsunami that opens the film is beautifully done. It looks real when quite clearly it couldn't be. Toss in Alice in Wonderland (because the entire field has a boner for the ugly design of that film) and Inception and you'll have the final nominees.

    Posted by: Robert at December 13, 2010 10:37 AM

    As cool as Tron looks, I doubt it will make me believe Ellen Paige can make a city move like a Rubics Cube. Inception for the win. (And it will definitely get nominated for Best Picure, too. The new 10 nominee format was created specifically for Christopher Nolan's movies, so his flick will get the nod. ((But it probably won't win that one. (((Lame.))))))

    Posted by: RobP at December 13, 2010 10:45 AM

    RobP - Your flurry of parentheses has befuddled me. I have no choice but to agree with whatever preceded them.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 13, 2010 10:50 AM

    I think he was doing that foghorn sound thing. Onomatopoeic punctuation--it could happen!

    What the hell is "Hereafter"?

    Posted by: Jay at December 13, 2010 11:16 AM

    And actually, I believe you're talking about visual effects, not special.


    OOOOOH, BURRRRRRRN!

    Posted by: Jay at December 13, 2010 11:18 AM

    Jay, Hereafter is Clint Eastwood's middling drama of three connected stories about ghosts. It's not nearly as exciting as that sounds, but it sure is pretty to look at. I also have a habit of interchangeably using Visual Effects and Special Effects when discussing this category. It's the same thing, only it allows me to comment on how ugly some of the praised Special Effects work is in a category designed around how effectively they're used in a visual medium.

    Posted by: Robert at December 13, 2010 11:38 AM

    Robert must be reading the exact opposite of the Tempest reviews I've seen, which say the effects are lame but the acting is actually quite good...

    I'll be getting together with my Shakespearean posse to see this. A number of us survived a production of The Tempest with a Prospera (it didn't help that Prospera also directed. Shudder.)

    Posted by: Sara Tonin at December 13, 2010 12:43 PM