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Our BuzzMeter panel of film experts predicts the 2021 Oscar winners. You can vote, too. The VFX helped the action scenes evoke classic martial-arts movies with invisible wire work and running up walls, and made sorcery such as witch Xianniang’s (Chinese superstar Gong Li) shapeshifting occur with a minimum of bells and whistles. Advertisement Advertisement An animated GIF of process shots of actors Liu Yifei as Mulan and Jason Scott Lee as Bori Khan in a soundstage for the finale fight scen...

93rd Oscar Nominations: Here Are All The Animation And VFX Nominees The Oscar nominations for the 93rd annual Academy Awards have been announced. The Academy Awards will be presented on April 25, having been delayed from February 28 as a result of the pandemic. They will be held at Union Station and Dolby Theatre in L.A., and will air live on ABC at 5 p.m. PT. Given the ongoing restrictions, the exact format of the ceremony remains unclear. Exceptionally, films that premiered on streaming platf...

"I’m the one who gets their name on the nomination but really it's recognition of the hard work and talent of everyone involved," says Anders Langlands.

Over the Moon and The Willoughbys, both of which have fallen out of the race. So has the sixth longlisted film, Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age. In recent years, Disney hasn’t dominated this category as decisively as at the Oscars or Golden Globes: it has won the BAFTA in two of the last six years. But this is the first time since 2014 that it has accounted for the majority of the nominees, and Soul, fresh from winning at the Globes, goes into this award as the favorite. The...

Rocks, and The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women—Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron—nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021s 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups. Advertisement Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), ...