Best Visual Effects Predictions for the 2023 Oscars

Rank Film The visual effects team Distributer 1 Top Gun: Maverick Ryan Tudhope (visual effects supervisor), Scott R. Fisher (special effects coordinator), Seth Hill (visual effects supervisor), Bryan Litson (visual effects supervisor) Paramount Pictures Thirty years on, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must face the ghosts of his past as he leads TOP GUN’s elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice of those chosen. to drive it. 2 “Avatar: The Way of the Water” Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett 20th century workshops Jake Sully lives with his newly formed family on the planet Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the Na’vi race army to protect their planet. 3 “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, Hanzhi Tang (vfx supervisors), Dan Sudick (sfx supervisor) marvel studios The nation of Wakanda stands against intervening world powers as they mourn the loss of their King T’Challa. 4 “The Batman” Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands (visual effects supervisors), Dominic Tuohy (special effects supervisor) Warner Bros. When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city’s hidden corruption and question his family’s involvement. 5 “RRR” V Srinivas Mohan Variance Movies A fictional story about two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far from home before they started fighting for their country in the 1920s. Next in line 6 “Everything, everywhere, all at once” be added A24 An aging Chinese immigrant is drawn into a crazy adventure, where only she can save the world by exploring other universes related to the lives she could have led. seven “Good Night Oppy” Ivan Busquets, Abishek Nair (visual effects supervisor), Marko Chulev, Steven Nichols (digital supervisors) Amazon Studios The film follows Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately nicknamed Oppy by its creators and NASA scientists. Oppy was originally meant to live only 90 days, but eventually explored Mars for nearly 15 years. 8 Jurassic World: Dominion be added Universal images Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn agents try to find Maisie Lockwood, while Dr. Ellie Sattler investigates a swarm of giant genetically modified insects. 9 “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” be added netflix Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across the multiverses, to battle multiple threats, including versions of himself from other universes, who threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse. They seek help from Wanda the Scarlet Witch, Wong, and others. ten “The beast” be added Universal images A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves being chased by a huge rogue lion determined to prove that the savannah has only one apex predator. Other top contenders 11 “Nope” Guillaume Rocheron, Jeremy Robert (visual effects supervisor), Sreejith Venugopalan (DFX supervisor), Scott R. Fisher (special effects coordinator) Universal images 12 “Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets” be added Warner Bros. 13 Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro Aaron Weintraub netflix 14 “After Yang” Ilia Mokhtareizadeh (visual effects supervisor) A24 15 “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” Joseph Bauer, Glenn Melenhorst Sony Pictures 16 “Thor: Love and Thunder” be added marvel studios 17 “Black Adam” be added Warner Bros. 18 “The Nordic” Angela Barson (visual effects supervisor) Focus characteristics 19 “Three thousand years of nostalgia” be added MGM/United Artists release 20 “The Woman King” Sara Bennett, Andy Morley, David Sadler-Coppard, Cordell McQueen Sony Pictures Also in the running 21 “Elvis” Tom Wood, Julian Hutchens, Joshua Simmonds (visual effects supervisors), Adam Hammond (digital effects supervisor) Warner Bros. 22 “Thirteen Lives” Jason Billington (visual effects supervisor), Brian Cox (special effects supervisor), Bruce Bright (assistant special effects supervisor) Amazon Studios/MGM 23 “Nanny” Ari Rubenstein (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor), David Schnee (Compositing Supervisor), Josh Clos (CG Artist), Chris Halstead (Composer) Amazon Studios 24 “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” be added Paramount Pictures 25 “Unexplored” be added Sony Pictures List of all contenders (without alphabetical order) “A love song” Alexey Platonov (visual effects supervisor) Bleecker Street “A Man Called Otto” Simon Chase (visual effects supervisor) Sony Pictures “After Yang” Ilia Mokhtareizadeh (visual effects supervisor), Raoul Marks (memory sequence creative director), Kyle Zemborain (composition supervisor) A24 “The Time of Armageddon” Glenn Allen, Elad Offer, Dave Zeevalk, Josh Laurence Focus characteristics “In the west, nothing is new” Markus Frank, Viktor Muller, Frank Petzold (vfx supervisor), Kamil Jafar (sfx supervisor) netflix “Bardo, false chronicle of a handful of truths” Guillaume Rocheron (vfx supervisor), Olaf Wendt (vfx supervisor) netflix “You won’t be alone” Marty Pepper (visual effects supervisor) Focus characteristics “Downton Abbey: A New Era” Patricia Llaguno (visual effects supervisor) Focus characteristics “Babylon” Jay Cooper (visual effects supervisor), Elia Popov (special effects coordinator), Kevin Martel (animation supervisor), Ebrahim Jahromi (CG supervisor) Paramount Pictures “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, Hanzhi Tang (vfx supervisors), Dan Sudick (sfx supervisor) marvel studios “Bones and All” Davide Luchetti (VFX Executive Producer), Fabio Cerrito (Head of Department), Virginia Cefaly (VFX Producer) MGM/United Artists release “Break” Michael R. Currie (visual effects supervisor) Bleecker Street “Dog” Joe Pancake (special effects supervisor) MGM/United Artists release “Don’t Worry Honey” Dan Schrecker (visual effects supervisor), Mathieu Raynault, Sylvain Theroux (visual effects by), Jeremy D. Hays (special effects supervisor) Warner Bros. “Elvis” Tom Wood, Julian Hutchens, Joshua Simmonds (visual effects supervisors), Adam Hammond (digital effects supervisor) Warner Bros. “Glass Onion: A Mystery at Daggers Drawn” Giles Haring, Sameer Malik, Erik Winquist (visual effects supervisor), Paul Stephenson (special effects supervisor) netflix “Good Night Oppy” Ivan Busquets, Abishek Nair (visual effects supervisor), Marko Chulev, Steven Nichols (digital supervisors) Amazon Studios Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro Aaron Weintraub netflix “Light year” Jane Yen (visual effects supervisor), Bill Watral (effects supervisor), Chia-Chi Hu (composition supervisor), Thomas Jordan (shading supervisor) Pixar “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” Joseph Bauer, Glenn Melenhorst Sony Pictures “Matilda” be added netflix “Minions: The Rise of Gru” Frank Baradat, Milan Voukassovitch (computer graphics supervisor), Simon Pate, Milo Riccarand (effects supervisor) Illumination/Universal Images “Nanny” Ari Rubenstein (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor), David Schnee (Compositing Supervisor), Josh Clos (CG Artist), Chris Halstead (Composer) Amazon Studios “RRR” V Srinivas Mohan (visual effects supervisor) Variance Movies “Strange World” Steve Goldberg (visual effects supervisor), Michael Kaschalk (effects animation manager), Marc Bryant, Henrik Fail (effects supervisor) Pictures of Walt Disney “The villains” Matt Baer (Visual Effects Supervisor), Jeff Budsberg (Look Lead), Stephen Wood (Effects Lead), JP Sans (Character Animation Lead) Universal images “The Batman” Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands (visual effects supervisors), Dominic Tuohy (special effects supervisor) Warner Bros. “The Nordic” Angela Barson (visual effects supervisor) Focus characteristics “The Beast from the Sea” R. Stirling Duguid, Spencer Lueders, Jeremy Hoey, Brian Casper netflix “The Silent Twins” Jean-Michel Boublil (VFX Supervisor) Focus characteristics “The Woman King” Sara Bennett, Andy Morley, David Sadler-Coppard, Cordell McQueen Sony Pictures “Thirteen Lives” Jason Billington (visual effects supervisor), Brian Cox (special effects supervisor), Bruce Bright (assistant special effects supervisor) Amazon Studios/MGM “Until” Christian Wood (special effects supervisor) Release of Orion/United Artists Top Gun: Maverick Ryan Tudhope (visual effects supervisor), Scott R. Fisher (special effects coordinator), Seth Hill (visual effects supervisor), Bryan Litson (visual effects supervisor) Paramount Pictures “Going Red” Danielle Feinberg (Visual Effects Supervisor), Dave Hale (Effects Supervisor), Jacob Brooks (Simulation Supervisor), Christian Hoffman (Character Supervisor) Pixar “Wendell and Savage” Heather Abels, Adrian Grey, Justin Graham, Sonja Burchard netflix “Speaking Women” Kevin Chandon (visual effects supervisor) MGM/United Artists release

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