With the expansion of the Best Picture category to ten nominees/whatever they're doing with this sliding scale, Best Visual Effects has become one of the easier categories to predict at the Oscars. The winner tends to be whichever nominee is also nominated in Best Picture. Take Gravity, Hugo, Life of Pi, and Inception as examples from recent years. However, this year there is no Best Picture contender nominated. Instead, what we have is the film that has other nominations, which in this case is Interstellar.
The only other contender that could take it down is probably going to be Dawn of the Planet of the Apes its predecessor Rise mustered up a nomination, but failed to take the top prize, however with even stronger acclaim around the film this time around, it could pull off an upset, especially with Interstellar's underperformance this year.
Guardians of the Galaxy takes the superhero slot this year with an enormous global box office total in tow. It has a small chance of upsetting over the other two superhero movies in this category. However, I think it's more likely that the above two films win over it.
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Will Win: Interstellar
Could Win: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Should Win: Interstellar
Should've Been Nominated: Despite the title character's lack of screentime, Godzilla still had gorgeous effects.
Hey, I'm Karl, founder and film critic at Smash Cut. I started Smash Cut in 2014 to share my love of movies and give a perspective I haven't yet seen represented. I'm also an editor at The New York Times, a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society.