Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, extreme weather and issues involving social justice. Emily Mae previously wrote for outlets like the ...

The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony is coming up in just a few more weeks (review all of the nominees). As part of a final countdown, The Academy has been releasing a series of video showcases breaking ...

Best Visual Effects commentary (Updated Feb. 26, 2025): The best visual effects category has long been where the Academy honors the boundary-pushing work of digital artists, practical effects wizards, ...

LOS ANGELES—The Visual Effects Society (VES) has named Emmy Award-winning actor-producer Hiroyuki Sanada as the recipient of the VES Award for Creative Excellence and Academy Award-winning director ...

Update (Dec. 11): Variety has been able to confirm through multiple sources that Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror film “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, has made the internal top ...

The team behind Avatar: The Way of Water‘s long-expected Oscar win for Visual Effects learned first-hand how committed Academy officials and show producers are to keeping things moving. Richard ...

The film is a rare animated feature that made this season’s visual effects Academy Award shortlist. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor It’s unusual to see an animated movie make the visual effects ...

1982 was a spectacular year for film in general, and a landmark year for science fiction and cinematic visual effects, with classics like Blade Runner, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Star Trek II: ...

The Oscar-nominated "The Irishman" has been about ten years in the making. The movie, with its famed director Martin Scorsese and legendary actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, features ...

Douglas Trumbull, the visual effects visionary who, without CGI, fashioned the kaleidoscopic finale for 2001: A Space Odyssey, concocted the creepy cloud formations in Close Encounters of the Third ...