20 movies have been selected to move up in the visual effects category for 2018's Oscars award show and later this month, the list will be reduced to 10 movies.
Take a look at the 20 films that are currently in the spotlight for the VFX Oscar:
- Alien: Covenant
- Beauty and the Beast
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dunkirk
- Ghost in the Shell
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
- Justice League
- Kong: Skull Island
- Life
- Logan
- Okja
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- The Shape of Water
- Spider-Man Homecoming
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Wonder Woman
The variety so far is quite impressive, with many blockbusters such as Kong: Skull Island and the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi, sharing the list with lower budget films such as Netflix's original south-korean fantasy Okja and Guillermo Del Toro's acclaimed Shape of Water.
The list also holds a generous amount of comic book movies, 8 to be exact if counting Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which is based off the french comic series Valérian and Laurelin and Ghost in the Shell, which was inspired by the cyber-punk manga series.
The official 5 nominees will be announced January 23rd.
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