The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the films nominated for an Oscar® for the 89th Academy Awards®. In a departure from the past the nominations were announced via a live stream without the press in attendance.
The Nominees for Visual Effects are:
Deepwater Horizon
Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington, Burt Dalton
• fxpodcast with ILM visual effects supervisor Craig Hammack
Doctor Strange
Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, Paul Corbould
• Doctor Strange’s Magical Mystery Tour in time
• fxpodcast overall VFX Supervisor Stephane Ceretti
The Jungle Book
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, Dan Lemmon
•Out of the pages and into The Jungle Book
•fxpodcast visual effects supervisor Rob Legato
Kubo and the Two Strings
Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McClean, Brad Schiff
•Kubo and the Two Strings: water effects
•Kubo and the Two Strings: the Moon Beast
•Kubo and the Two Strings: Rapid Prototyping evolves
•Kubo and the Two Strings: behind The Hall of Bones
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, Neil Corbould
•Part 1: Rogue One shows its Force
•Part 2: Rogue One character animation
The Nominees for Animated Short are:
Blind Vaysha: Theodore Ushev
Borrowed Time: Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
Pear Cider and Cigarettes: Robert Valley and Cara Speller
Pearl: Patrick Osborne
- Pearl started as a VR film: Watch it here link
Piper: Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer
• Piper :The tech of PIXAR part 1: Piper – daring to be different
The Nominees for Animated Feature film are:
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia
The Nominees for Production Design:
It is also worth noting that in the category of Best Production Design, visual effects film lead the charge with three of the five films relying on heavily on Visual Effects to realise key Production design.
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land
Passengers
Complete list of nominees: oscar.go.com/nominees
The 89th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.