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The monster movie is also the first foreign language film, first Japanese production and first Godzilla film to win Best VFX The post ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Director Is 1st Filmmaker to Win Visual Effects Oscar Since Stanley Kubrick appeared first on TheWrap.
TheWrap magazine: Takashi Yamazaki is the first director nominated for VFX since Stanley Kubrick in 1969 The post ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Director ‘Flattered and Honored’ by Historic Oscar Nomination: ‘It Means So Much’ appeared first on TheWrap.
Shirogumi VFX supervisor Kiyoko Shibuya helped deliver 620 shots, including the giant beast crushing the heavy cruiser Takao, all on a shoestring budget, in Takashi Yamazaki’s hit sci-fi thriller, nominated for a best VFX Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards.
He’s a lizard, a true star. Such was the reaction in Japan, where a 70-year local movie industry stalwart has received his first-ever Oscar nomination. The short-listed saurian was born Gojira in 1954. However, to the rest of the world, he’s better known as Godzilla. And now, having smashed his way through cities worldwide, he’s finally broken his Academy Awards curse courtesy of a Best Visual Effects nod for Godzilla Minus One.
Audiences aren’t scared of Godzilla anymore. Why would they be? The previous Toho Studios produced film in the series, Shin Godzilla, is an extremely winning satire on bureaucracy with the focus on the monster’s destruction being something politicians watch on screens. A great film, but it mostly takes place in