Short Film and Feature Animation branch adds 105 new members; 52 new members added to the Visual Effects branch.
Short film Oscar winner Kobe Bryant barred entry into film academy.
Rules for animated feature contenders now allow more than one producer to be designated as the nominee.
Schedule will culminate Feb. 24 with the live televised Academy Awards ceremony.
Former Fox executive writes the organization has mishandled diversity issue, let Oscars ratings and relevance slide and failing to keep the Academy Museum project on schedule and budget.
Winners of the event qualify for Oscars consideration; submissions deadline is June 1.
AMPAS statement explains the steps taken to investigate the claim and concludes that no further action is required.
'Variety' reports three claims were made on Wednesday, prompting the academy to launch an immediate investigation into the behavior of its president, who was elected to the post in July.
Production company Anonymous Content and VFX studio MPC team for sci-fi short.
Great animated shorts and feature films produced in Europe may garner nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, but nary a win.
Glen Keane’s ‘Dear Basketball,’ Pixar’s ‘Coco’ win animation Oscars; ‘Blade Runner 2049’ wins VFX and cinematography awards.
The overall VFX supervisor riffs on witness cameras, bleak L.A. cityscapes and the super-secret digital recreation of Rachael in Denis Villeneuve’s mesmerizing ‘Blade Runner’ sequel.
All five Oscars best visual effects nominees used software made by the company, whose employees also were honored by the Television Academy and at the Sci-Tech Awards.
The legendary animator finds his game and garners an Oscar nomination alongside legendary hoopster Kobe Bryant with their animated ‘love letter’ short film tribute to the sport.
Weta’s four-time Oscar-winning senior VFX supervisor talks about the complexities of creating believable digital ape performances in the final film in Fox’s ‘Apes’ trilogy reboot, director Matt Reeves’ futuristic action adventure ‘War for the Planet of the Apes.’
Inspired by the theatricality of puppetry, Magic Light Pictures delivers a varied yet coherent ensemble of characters for the Oscar-nominated CG-animated short that is true in essence to Blake’s designs.
Group of 20 nominees draws on two decades of experience and technological advances, delivering shots that were previously unimaginable.
Cartoon Saloon’s Jeremy Purcell and Guru Studio’s Sanatan Suryavanshi & Sheldon Lisoy detail the complex compositing process behind the meticulously designed story-within-a-story sequences of the Oscar-nominated animated feature.
Academy governors Richard Edlund and Bill Kroyer weigh in on how to acknowledge and reward the growing number of stellar CG character performances.
The first solo effort from Cartoon Saloon director Nora Twomey makes Oscar waves.
DNeg VFX supervisor Paul Lambert details the creation of futuristic Los Angeles cityscapes, the holographic Joi, and the visuals for the final act of director Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi film noir classic by Ridley Scott.
On the road to the 90th Oscars, the studio’s most senior talent reflects on the storytelling and production challenges of bringing ‘Coco’ to audiences, as well as new efforts to increase Pixar’s workplace and senior-level creative diversity.
A team of graduating students from MoPA garner accolades for hyper-realistic animated short with a noir twist.
Center assisted painters by providing detailed reference, visual effects, compositing and editing for Oscars-nominated feature.
One of five films to receive a nomination for best visual effects in this year’s race for Oscar gold, ‘Episode VIII’ mixes new characters with those from the 1977-1983 films in wholly new environments.
