Here are the 10 movies that will by vying for Visual Effects Oscar nominations

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

As November comes to a close, the Oscar talk begins to truly heat up. One of the first coming up is the Academy Awards for Visual Effects. The Hollywood Reporter listed the ten movies that will be in contention for the golden statue when the ceremony airs on February 24, 2013.

Those films are:

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

CLOUD ATLAS

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

JOHN CARTER

LIFE OF PI

MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS

PROMETHEUS

SKYFALL

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

Of those titles we can expect five or less to make the final cut. This is a pretty substantial list, but I would think that THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and CLOUD ATLAS would be the first ones knocked off. Then I would lose SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN and maybe JOHN CARTER. SKYFALL would be the other I would remove which leaves you with the truly best examples of visual effects this year. While I have not seen THE HOBBIT yet, there is no doubt the effects are better than they were in THE LORD OF THE RINGS which would warrant an automatic nomination.

What do you think of the list. Anything left off that you feel should be here?

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Tags: Cloud Atlas, John Carter, Life of Pi, Nominations, Oscars, Prometheus, Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises, Visual Effects

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