Full Oscar Nominations 2018

We only worked on Guardians 2 and that is never going to receive an award over Apes (which is clearly going to win the VFX award).

I haven't seen everything on the list but Dunkirk for me is the movie of the year. The Shape of Water is a beautiful movie that is so very VERY wacky that I am not sure I actually liked it, although I could appreciate it.
 
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Hopefully not. Bladerunner 2049 not only used CGI,a lot of the work was done with minatures:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/blade-runner-2049-used-amazingly-detailed-miniature-set-1820401271

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Isn't it a VFX award? Miniatures isn't going to help that. To appreciate the Apes work you have to realise they were rendering 100's of Apes with all that fur interacting with water, dust and other environmental factors so well that as an audience member who literally works in VFX technology I was almost believing they just trained Apes to act by the end of the movie. I didn't think the movie itself was all that but the VFX work was simply incredible.
 
JBod said:
Isn't it a VFX award? Miniatures isn't going to help that. To appreciate the Apes work you have to realise they were rendering 100's of Apes with all that fur interacting with water, dust and other environmental factors so well that as an audience member who literally works in VFX technology I was almost believing they just trained Apes to act by the end of the movie. I didn't think the movie itself was all that but the VFX work was simply incredible.
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Wait,wut?? The visual effects award has existed long before CGI,and covers all effects including non-CGI ones. Who Framed Roger Rabbit won it and so did Jurassic Park. The former had hand done visual effects and tha latter use loads of animatronic models!

If you watched BL2049,you would be shocked at the level of the minatures some of which were massive. In fact when I watched some videos of the effects behind the film,almost all the large outdoor shots had minatures in them and I could not believe it.

I watched the film on the Superscreen at the O2 which is mahoosive and has dual 4K projectors,and I can't still believe many of the outdoor shots had minatures and that includes the area where K crashes his spinner in the huge junkyard,where the immediate area is a small outdoor set,but the rest of it including the collapsed antenna array,etc are models.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/blade-runner-2049-used-amazingly-detailed-miniature-set-1820401271


That needs real skill to be able to make models that detailed,and that large,and to make sure the lighting was done in a realistic way - very few people in the whole world can do that,and its a dying art and requires a lot of skill, and a lot of those effects were done by a company in New Zealand.

In fact one of the reasons they didn't go with CGI fully,which would have been probably cheaper,was primarily so they could actually make the lighting look more realistic,which the film does very well.

That does not also include some of the CGI work done,which was amazing too(like what they did with Rachel - look at the last two Star Wars films and see how it looked uncanny valley,yet it didn't look that way in this one).

The original film had visual effects done by Douglas Trumball(chap who worked on 2001:A Space Odyssey),and his collaborators and was criminally ignored for the VFX award,yet it has some of the best visual effects of its era,and it is one of the few sci fi films to be in the National Film Registry due to its significance.

Interestingly enough though,the CGI for three of the films nominated for awards this year was done by a single company in Canada:

https://globalnews.ca/news/3982143/...lebrates-blade-runner-2049-oscar-nominations/

They did CGI for Star Wars,King Kong and Bladerunner. They have said they have a 60% chance of getting an award this year!! :p
 
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I thought the two companies doing effects for the BL2049 and Planet of the Apes sounded familar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Workshop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Digital

They are the same company based in New Zealand!! :o

Weta Workshop does minatures,Weta Digital does CGI. They have both shared two Academy Awards for VFX for The Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring and King Kong.

I didn't realise Canada and New Zealand were so integral to VFX in many films.
 
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G-MAN2004 said:
Daniel Kaluuya, best actor? Get out...
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Right? I know they are in "so white" reverse gear at full speed, and rightly so, but let's not tip the boat over on the first cruise - surely there were stronger options...
 
I actually disagree (though admittedly, I've not seen EVERY male performance this year). He had to sell the **** out of that part to have it stick and he pulled it off admirably. He won't win, but he at the very least deserves the nomination.
 
Bump as we're just a couple of hours away.

My main wishes are Three BB for best picture, Gary Oldman best actor, Frances Mc for best actress, although I will be just as happy if Sally Hawkins wins, and Sam Rockwell for best supporting actor.
 
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