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Posts Tagged ‘special effects

My 2015-2016 Oscar Predictions Part 2: The Technicals

February 6, 2016

These next categories are usually the categories I am most interested in when watching the Oscars, because they can have a tendency to honour films that would usually be overlooked in the more prominent categories. These are the categories which focus on the video and audio details of the film. VISUAL EFFECTS: Ex Machina – […]

My 2014-2015 Oscar Predictions Part 2: The Technicals

February 4, 2015

These next categories are usually the categories I am most interested in when watching the Oscars, because they can have a tendency to honour films that would usually be overlooked in the more prominent categories. These are the categories which focus on the video and audio details of the film. VISUAL EFFECTS: Dan DeLeeuw, Russell […]

Olympus Has Fallen

August 16, 2013

Olympus Has Fallen is a story which sees the most highly trained guards in history drop like stormtroopers as North Korean terrorists take over the White House and hold the president hostage. Its a pretty standard action flick. Many have called it Die Hard in the White House, and it does have that feel (they […]

My 2012-2013 Oscar Predictions – Part 2: The Technicals

January 26, 2013

These next categories are usually the categories I am most interested in when watching the Oscars, because they can have a tendancy to honour films that would usually be overlooked in the more prominent categories. These are the categories which focus on the video and audio details of the film. VISUAL EFFECTS: The Hobbit: An […]

My Oscar Predictions – Part 2: The Technicals

February 5, 2010

When someone asks me “Do you like awards shows?” I say “No… except the Oscars.”  Why?  Because the Oscars still award achievements in the technical aspects of film as well as the big celebrity what-have-you awards that most people care about. If the day comes when these awards are cut from the Oscars, or no […]