BvS Shocker! The Academy discards Man Of Steel from Best Visual FX Oscar race!!!

[slumcat]

So the Visual Effects Oscar is a 3 step race. First the Branch members visit a bake-off where they narrow down hundreds of film to 10.

Then there is another vote to determine the 5 nominees.

And then the entire Academy membership votes to determine the winner. We already know the winner - Gravity, but the bake off list of 10 was just released and Man Of Steel was discarded by the Academy.

"Elysium"
"Gravity"
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"
"Iron Man 3"
"The Lone Ranger"
"Oblivion"
"Pacific Rim"
"Star Trek Into Darkness"
"Thor: The Dark World"
"World War Z"

Both the MCU movies made it perhaps underlining that Man Of Steel was really hurt by its bad reviews and "Rotten" status on RT.

Do you think Man Of Steel will continue TDKR's tradition of ZERO Oscar nominations?

Because this was the one nomination it could have gotten.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Shocking indeed. There is NOTHING in the entire runtimes' of either IM3 or TDW that in it's visual effects comes close to what Snyder and Co. did in MOS to my eyes.

 

[Wise]

To be honest not surprising.

They already know Gravity will win.

They probably just made the list for the other contenders in five minutes without even watching them.

 

[Herolee10]

If a film is not considered for that list because of mixed RT reviews, then "The Lone Ranger" has no place in being there.

 

[ЯɘvlveR]

rt reviews mean nothing. it's a visual fx award. supes first flight was better then anything in most of those movies nomimated. but what are we to do.

 

[slumcat]

If a film is not considered for that list because of mixed RT reviews, then "The Lone Ranger" has no place in being there.

But they are snobby about awarding badly reviewed films. They gave the Oscar to The Golden Compass over Transformers!

They did not even nominate Tron Legacy.

 

[slumcat]

Shocking indeed. There is NOTHING in the entire runtimes' of either IM3 or TDW that in it's visual effects comes close to what Snyder and Co. did in MOS to my eyes.

Much of MOS looked pretty bad and blurry.

What's the point of visual FX if everything looks blurry the entire time? The entire final fight was one big CGI blur.

 

[jonathancrane]

Its rejection is unfortunate; but, objectively speaking, it, IM3, and TDW did not offer anything remarkable, in terms of the effects. I am really surprised that WWZ made it to the list, as it did not offer anything special. The MCU films recycled sequences from preceding films: IM3 the alien invasion from TA, IM3 the house battle from IM2 and the Stark Expo battle from the same film. MOS threw the invasion from TA and the last Transformers flick into a blender.

Gosh, writing this post has made me realize how much is recycled in superhero blockbuster films (this is a criticism of both sides of the fence.)

 

[Kevin Smith]

There wasn't one special effect that really "WOW'd" me anymore than anything in those other movies. I thought it looked very video game-ish at some times, unfortunately.

Going to have to side with the Academy on this one.

 

[Marvin]

Much of MOS looked pretty bad and blurry.

What's the point of visual FX if everything looks blurry the entire time? The entire final fight was one big CGI blur.

like your avy

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Much of MOS looked pretty bad and blurry.

What's the point of visual FX if everything looks blurry the entire time? The entire final fight was one big CGI blur.

I saw it six times in theatres and the only time it looked blurry was in a standard theatre. I saw most of my showings in a digital theatre and it was crystal clear, as it is now on Blu Ray.

The effects in the film were phenomenal to my eyes, from the first reel to the last.

 

[slumcat]

I saw it six times in theatres and the only time it looked blurry was in a standard theatre. I saw most of my showings in a digital theatre and it was crystal clear, as it is now on Blu Ray.

The effects in the film were phenomenal to my eyes, from the first reel to the last.

Well this was voted on by Visual FX professionals who have worked in the field for decades. They might have seen some flaws which escape casual watchers.

 

[Marvin]

Snyder never gets vfx nods and he always uses tons.
I hope he switches to ILM some day. MCP just ain't doing it I guess.

 

[Boom]

Gravity wins.

They shouldn't even bother nominating anything else in that category.

 

[slumcat]

Gravity is the most dazzling and bracing use of Visual FX in forever. It really is path breaking and something we have never seen. The FX in Gravity are truly a monumental achievement.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

I loved Man of Steel, but the CG was even.

At times it was perfect (Krypton), and at other times it was embarrassingly bad (Smallville fight).

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Gravity is the top dog here, I am not arguing that. But MOS' use of CG was leagues ahead of TDW or IM, or Lone Ranger.

 

[slumcat]

Like I said there was lots and lots of blurring in MOS. That probably killed its chances.

I think clean compositions are better to showcase FX than a camera that is shaking every second.

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

The fx that were supposed to be so good in MOs did come off as blurry. I do admit there were some good scenes with it, Supes flying out the building that Zod destroyed with his best vision. But there was nothing in the movie that gave me a Matrix "WTF was that" feeling. I haven't seen Gravity so I can't judge, I saw the previews for it watching MOS and I am still surprised almost all critics loved it.

 

[Snow Queen]

Why even have that many on the shortlist? Just give it to Gravity already.

 

[Masone]

The fact that none of the Transformers movies won for VFX means they lost their credibility a long time ago. Unless the Hobbit does some amazing ****, Man of Steel was clearly the best this year. Oh well.

 

[Kryptonian Warrior]

I have no idea what movie some of you watched. Blurry? Really? It was crystal clear in the theater and on my TV.

 

[Marvin]

gravity is overrated.
It should win this year but seriously.

 

[slumcat]

The fact that none of the Transformers movies won for VFX means they lost their credibility a long time ago. Unless the Hobbit does some amazing ****, Man of Steel was clearly the best this year. Oh well.

Haven't you seen Gravity?

 

[Thoix]

Gravity will win obviously, as it should. But Man of Steel looked better than anyone of the other movies on the list (well, maybe other than Elysium and Desolation of Smaug, which isn't out yet). Then again, these people nominated Les Miserabes for choreography, when it had some of the worst choreography I have seen in a movie this last decade. Bleh.

I really don't pay much attention to the Academy Awards/Oscars that much anyway, which is something most of my guiding reviewers do too.