Bumblebee Movie: Eligible For Visual Effects Oscar Consideration

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  1. transf0

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    Personally I think First Man is most deserving if we're talking about artistic value.
     
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    As expected, it didn't make the cut. These are the final nominees...
    • Ant-Man and the Wasp
    • Avengers: Infinity War
    • Black Panther
    • Christopher Robin
    • First Man
    • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    • Mary Poppins Returns
    • Ready Player One
    • Solo: A Star Wars Story
    • Welcome to Marwen
    I'm a big MCU fan, but even I don't agree that ANY of those movies should be included. Maybe, at best because of the Thanos mo-cap, Infinity War, but even that's stretching it.

    And my god, if they're actually including shit like Ready Player One and Solo with straight faces, both Bumblebee and Aquaman should have been givens as well. They each had as many okay-good FX as shitty "can almost see the green screen" ones like those others did. Clearly the only 3 movies that DO deserve to be in there needed to be padded out with some faux competition in the category.

    Anyway... I guess this is the part where all the same people that said it SHOULD get nominated a couple weeks ago will now trumpet that awards shows are a waste of time, don't mean anything, blah blah yada yada. Have at it.
     
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  3. Mglaighton120

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    I disagree, Infinity War had some really incredible visual effects and def deserves a nomination. Black Panther is debatable but does have some great visuals too. AMATW also should he nominated imo, as should Solo. It's a shame Bumblebee and Aquaman didnt get nominations but WB wasnt really pushing for a nomination with Aquaman
     
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    The fact that Antman and frikin Black Panther is on that list is complete bullshit.
     
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    The fact that Welcome to Marwen made the shortlist over Aquaman and Bumblebee (and MI:Fallout, for practical effects) is freaking laughable.

    I predict First Man will win, because it's a "serious movie" that's not quite good enough to get the main awards, so they'll give it this as a consolation prize.
     
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    Isnt there a new category most popular film?
     
  7. Ash from Carolina

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    The reason The Golden Compass won is because one of the older effects guys working on the film died about the time the votes were being taken for the effects award. Since the people who get to vote on the effects awards are people who have won the award in the past there were votes from other people who had worked with him as sort of a last award since effects people rarely get any life time achievement awards from the Oscars.

    It's perhaps one of the most insider of the awards. Heck the 2011 film Hugo got the award by appealing to the older days of effects to push the nostalgia buttons of the people who were voting for the effects award.