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5 unusual facts about Academy Award for Best Visual Effects


Best Special Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, which was called Best Special Effects from 1939 to 1963, and included both visual and sound effects from 1939 to 1962

C. C. Stevens

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for his work on the film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing.

Ray Binger

He received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Special Effects for generating fake crowds to fill up the baseball stands in 1942's The Pride of the Yankees.

Roy Pomeroy

He won an Academy Award for Engineering Effects for the film Wings at the 1st Academy Awards.

Warren Newcombe

He won two Academy Awards for Best Special Effects and was nominated for another one in the same category.


Dick Powell

Powell's film The Enemy Below (1957), based on the novel by Denys Rayner, won the Academy Award For Special Effects.

Edwin C. Hahn

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects on the film Only Angels Have Wings at the 12th Academy Awards.

Flight Command

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Special Effects (A. Arnold Gillespie, Douglas Shearer).

Harry Kusnick

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects at the 17th Academy Awards for work on the film Secret Command.

Herbert Norsch

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects on the film Women in War at the 13th Academy Awards.

Ken Ralston

Ralston has won five Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and regular awards for his work on Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Cocoon.

Loren L. Ryder

He won five Academy Awards and was nominated for twelve more in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.

R. T. Layton

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects on the film The Long Voyage Home at the 13th Academy Awards.

The Invisible Man Returns

The special effects by John P. Fulton, Bernard B. Brown and William Hedgcock received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Special Effects.

Tim Webber

For his work on Gravity, he has been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 86th Academy Awards.

Women in War

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (Howard Lydecker, William Bradford, Ellis J. Thackery, Herbert Norsch).


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