Happy Monday! Here’s a compilation of every Best VFX winner ever, via Burgerfiction:
For the 1927/28 Academy awards, the award was for engineering effects. There was no award again until 1938 where it was called a special award “for outstanding achievement in creating special photographic and sound effects. The very next year the award was combined with sound effects and called the Award for Special Effects. It wasn’t until 1963 that the award became the Award for Best Visual Effects (which it is still called today). It was given every year from 1963 to present, with the exception of 1973. Hope you enjoy!
**Also we apologize for the two title mistakes. We had already uploaded it when we noticed:
*The Thief OF Bagdad
*Reap The Wild WIND
As far as VFX has come over the years, however, the industry’s in trouble. Cracks showed most visibly during the Life of Pi incident at the Oscars, where the VFX company Rhythm ‘N Hues, who won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, filed for bankruptcy just 11 days beforehand. What went wrong?
The answer is dozens of places: changing technology, the fact that oodles of VFX studios vie for work from only six Hollywood studios, not to mention shrinking profit margins and enticing tax subsidies offered by other countries. It’s tragic, especially given that a lion’s share of award-winning films rely on visual effects. Production companies need visual effects studios. In the case of Life of Pi, without the crazy visuals and the CGI tiger, it wouldn’t have been half the film it was. And it was a very very beautiful film. That makes it all the more weird and sad that VFX outfits are going out of business.
Hopefully someday we’ll fix this.