Oscar 2008: Best Visual Effects, Short Subjects

Bill Westenhofer, Michael Fink, Trevor Wood, Ben Morris

Oscar 2008: Best Screenplay, Cinematography, Music
Best visual effects
* The Golden Compass (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Walt Disney)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
Transformers (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Best sound editing
* The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal)
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
No Country for Old Men (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Skip Lievsay
Ratatouille (Walt Disney)
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Matthew Wood
Transformers (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Best sound mixing
* The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal)
Scott Millan, David [...]

by Andre Soares | February 24, 2008   
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Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Short Films

Best Makeup
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Of the three nominees, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End boasts the showiest example of movie makeup. For the record, the other two nominees are La Vie en Rose, in which gorgeous Marion Cotillard was transformed into plain Edith Piaf, and Norbit.
 

Best Documentary Short
Sari’s Mother, James Longley
The short film winners are hard to predict because they belong to a "special category" — only the relatively few who prove they have watched all nominated films can vote for the winner. Compounding matters, the shorts, like most foreign-language feature film nominees, aren’t easily available for viewing in the United States.
Now, James Longley’s documentary feature Iraq in Fragments was [...]

by Andre Soares | January 30, 2008   
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