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Oct 27, 2026
RamonHOST
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RamonHOST
Filmed in Los Angeles between 1991 and April 1992, the movie hit theaters to mixed reviews, but its groundbreaking visual effects were anything but dead on arrival, earning it an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
RamonHOST
It beat out Alien 3 and Batman
DaveHOST
Returns.
DeeHOST
Yes.
DeeHOST
The special effects guy for this movie was the first winner of the brand new Oscar category of Best Special Effects.
DeeHOST
And the guy who did the special effects, who we know as Rick Baker, the monster maker.
DeeHOST
It's still the youngest one to have ever won the award.
JohnHOST
Revenant, yeah.
JohnHOST
And the effects teams were nominated for Best Visual Effects, losing to Ex Machina.
JohnHOST
Right.
JohnHOST
Two good winners.
DanHOST
From a script by David Franzoni along with John Logan and William Nicholson, Gladiator won so many awards that there is a separate Wikipedia page for all the awards that it won.
DanHOST
Nominated for 12 different Academy Awards, it took the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Costume Design, Best Actor for Russell Crowe, and Best Picture of the Year.
HeatherHOST
think i knew it won best picture
DanHOST
it did can you name any of the other cast of this movie i cannot russell crowe the rest of the cast is rounded out with joaquin phoenix oh
EricaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
to say, I would have loved some Tracy Ullman, but like, yeah, no, the ending is perfection.
EricaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Death Becomes Her won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
EricaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It beat Alien 3 and Batman Returns.
PaulSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I buy that.
Marc MajeauHOST
Only one Oscar nomination for Avengers Endgame as well, too.
Marc MajeauHOST
It was nominated for Best Visual Effects.
Marc MajeauHOST
Didn't win.
Marc MajeauHOST
And I was looking at kind of some of the other nominees, too.
Paul CaiolaHOST
Correct.
Erika VillalbaHOST
Alien was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Visual Effects but losing Best Art Direction to All That Jazz.
Erika VillalbaHOST
That's interesting.
Erika VillalbaHOST
Actually, when I was watching this movie last night, I was like, I wish I'd seen this in the theater.
Bev EllisHOST
I even think Yamazaki made the better film.
Ryan EllisHOST
I don't think any other Godzilla flick has ever been nominated for an Oscar, but Yamazaki's version won for Best Visual Effects.
Ryan EllisHOST
That was shared by the director, Kyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tetsuji Nojima.
Ryan EllisHOST
It won or was at least nominated for many, many other awards, including a whack of Japan Academy Film Prizes, which are essentially the Nippon Oscars.
NateHOST
This is a problem that Ron Howard, telling a true story, knew that he would have to deal with, and told it in the most realistic way possible.
NateHOST
This film was nominated for Best Visual Effects and lost that year to Babe, which I say fully aware that I will have to defend Babe in a few weeks.
NateHOST
So let me just say, knowing that I will have to defend Babe, give me a fucking break.
NateHOST
This movie, [laughs] this movie is an absolute technical masterpiece.
JoniHOST
So as far as awards is concerned, it did earn several prestigious industry nominations and a major box office honor, but it did not win an Academy Award.
JoniHOST
The film's most notable recognition came from the 34th Academy Awards in April 1962, where it was nominated for Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography for Black and White, Best Art Direction Set, Decoration, also Black and White.
JoniHOST
Other major nominations and wins include the 1962 Golden Globe, where Fred McMurray received a nomination for Best Actor, an emotion picture for comedy or musical.
JoniHOST
The film won a 1961 Golden Laurel Award for Top General Entertainment.
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