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;

Spartacus: Vengeance

Can't wait for the next season of Spartacus. Looks intensely epic!

I Must Break You

Green Goblin

Tests for a potential approach to the Green Goblin for Sam Raimi's Spiderman (2002), if the Goblin persona was to organic as it is in the comics, opposed to a suit.

Personally I would have loved to see this approach brought to life opposed to the helmet that was present in the final film. I can understand that there would have been practical reasons against pursuing this approach, but it would have been awesome. I love the "extreme" expressions that the actor pulls, to see Willem Dafoe's Goblin through this would be amazing.


I appreciate that both approaches were practical, rather than cgi.

It's always snowing somewhere...