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3 unusual facts about Best Special 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

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects, which was called Best Special Effects in a Video from 1984 to 2011

The BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects, which has been known as that since it was introduced in 1982


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.

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.

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.

Kadhalan

Meanwhile A. S. Laxmi Narayanan and V. S. Murthy won an award for Best Audiography, B. Lenin and V. T. Vijayan for Best Editing while Venky picked up an award for Best Special 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.

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.

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.

Warren Newcombe

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


see also

Nandi Award for Best Special Effects

Anji and Magadheera are the only films which won both the Nandi Award for Best Special Effects and National Film Award for Best Special Effects for that year.

Screen Award for Best Special Effects

The Screen Award for Best Special Effects is chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from the Indian Bollywood film industry and the winners are announced in January.