Thursday, January 10, 2013

85th Academy Award Nominees for Visual Effects

The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards have been announced.  As always, the winner of each category will be voted upon by the full Academy membership.  The awards ceremony takes place on February 24, 2013.

Here are the nominees for Achievement in Visual Effects, for the 85th Academy Awards:

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White

Life of Pi
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

Marvel's The Avengers
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick

Prometheus
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill

Snow White and the Huntsman
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson


2 comments:

Sandykoufax said...

any prediction yet? :)

TylerMirage said...

Whoa, Weta's in 3/5 this year. That's impressive. Part of me thinks that "Avengers" is the obvious choice, but another part of me thinks that the Academy will turn their nose up at the "silly comic book movie" and give it to "The Hobbit" or "Life of Pi".

*crosses fingers for "Avengers"*