2012 VFX Oscar Short List

Shortlist for the VFX Oscar for 2012 has been released. Five of these ten films will make the final cut to be officially nominated for the award;


Captain America: The First Avenger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Hugo
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Real Steel
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Tree of Life
X-Men: First Class


An excellent collection of prime vfx examples, quite a few genre films included. Looking at the candidates, I would take a stab and say that the following five films are likely to be nominated;