LOS ANGELES—The Visual Effects Society (VES) has named Emmy Award-winning actor-producer Hiroyuki Sanada as the recipient of the VES Award for Creative Excellence and Academy Award-winning director ...

"It was our biggest season to date in terms of VFX for sure, both in shot count and our budget," says "The Umbrella Academy" visual effects supervisor Everett Burrell about the third season of the ...

Best Visual Effects is one of my personal favorite Oscar categories, but this year it’s one without a single Best Picture nominee in the bunch, which isn’t that uncommon — it happened most recently in ...

Best Visual Effects commentary (Updated Feb. 26, 2025): The best visual effects category has long been where the Academy honors the boundary-pushing work of digital artists, practical effects wizards, ...

The category is particularly head-scratching when looking at the history of winners at the Oscars. Since the expanded Best Picture era began in 2010, eight of the last 14 winners came from Best ...

The team behind Avatar: The Way of Water‘s long-expected Oscar win for Visual Effects learned first-hand how committed Academy officials and show producers are to keeping things moving. Richard ...

His other credits included 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Ant-Man and the Wasp,' 'Men in Black: International' and 'Jungle Cruise,' and he received the VES Founders Award last year.