The category of best visual effects at the Oscars gives blockbusters a chance to shine. These 10 films may have taken a ...

History was made Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood when the King of the Monsters won its first-ever Oscar, as Toho Studio’s Godzilla Minus One took home the Academy Award for Best Visual ...

From the moment Georges Méliès wowed audiences with a rocket crashing into the moon's face in A Trip to the Moon over 120 years ago, amazing special effects have been one of the best parts of going to ...

With 25 years of hindsight, Jurassic Park marks a pivotal point in the history of visual effects in film. It came 11 years after 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan debuted computer-generated ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

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, ...

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...

UPDATE: Variety was able to identify the 20th unknown visual effects feature through two sources. It is Nick Hamm’s “Gigi & Nate,” a Roadside Attractions drama that tells the true story of a ...

'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' leads the animation field with six noms. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor To the surprise of no one, James Cameron’s dazzling Avatar: The Way of Water dominated the ...