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Visuals are, obviously, what we pay attention to when we watch movies. This category is more about the technological advancements that a group has managed to achieve in order to make a movie into a visual masterpiece. So we will be going over the nominations for the Best Visuals categories.

First on the list of nominations for this category is ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and more specifically the designers of which were Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken and Dan Sudick. ‘Endgame’ is extremely reliant on visual effects and did an unbelievable job at immersing its audience into a world to feels almost real. Marvel films have always tried to push visuals to their extremes, and ‘Endgame’ carries on that tradition by creating some of, possibly, the best visuals seen yet.

Next up, we have a movie that has a numerous amount of other nominations, and that is ‘The Irishman.’ The visual effect designers for which were Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser and Stephane Grabli. It should be no surprise that this movie ended up in this category either as many visual aspects have been nominated for this movie already so the nomination for Best Visual Effect makes sense.

Following that, we have ‘The Lion King’ as the next nomination. As a live action version of an animated film, Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Elliot Newman, the visual effects designers, did an excellent job of making the characters seem real. It isn’t easy making animated anthropomorphic animals seem like they are living and speaking in real life. As such, they earned their place on the list of nominees to receive this award.

Another film to have multiple awards attached to it nomination wise is ‘1917.’ It managed to also make its way into the category for Best Visual Effects because of the hard work of Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy. War films, often times, must be visceral to some degree in order to illicit some kind of emotional response from the audience. This movie did well enough in that respect to make an impact that put it on this list.

Finally, we have Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach and Dominic Tuohy for their work on ‘Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker.’ As this movie is supposed to be the last in the mainline series of films, it should be no surprise that a lot of extra work went into the movie to make it incredibly visually appealing. A fantastic space opera should have fantastic visuals, and that is what was accomplished for this film. No matter what you may have thought about the film, there is no question that the visuals were incredible.

There are countless categories for the Oscars. There are so many in fact that we may not end up covering all of the categories and their nominations. We have managed to cover a fair number of them already, however, such as Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Directing Nominees, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best Film Editing, Best International Feature, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Music (Original Score), and Best Original Screenplay.