Visual Effects Oscar Goes To Hugo

Hugo won the Oscar for visual effects, the film’s fifth award of the night, having won for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography and Art Direction. The nominees were: Harry Potter and the ...
Visual Effects Oscar Goes To Hugo
Written by Chris Crum
  • Hugo won the Oscar for visual effects, the film’s fifth award of the night, having won for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography and Art Direction.

    The nominees were:

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
    Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson

    Hugo
    Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning

    Real Steel
    Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg

    Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett

    Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier.

    Some Twitter reaction to the win:

    Best Visual Effects Oscar goes to HUGO!!!! Another Oscar win woot!!! #oscars 1 minute ago via TweetDeck ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Way too many killer nominees for Visual Effects… SO many gems. #oscars 1 minute ago via TweetDeck ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Douglas Trumbull no visual effects nom for Tree of Life is biggest oscar snub of the night. Still, he’s got lifetime achievement award. 2 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Visual Effects – If Hugo wins over Harry Potter I am going to be so pissed! #Oscar 3 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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