Oscars 2020: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
Today we’re gonna do the Visual Effects shortlist, mostly because that category can usually be done by sheer logic and doesn’t take a whole lot to parse through. Plus we’ll eventually have a bunch of precursors, so that’ll help too.
The only thing I’m upset about with this one is that we didn’t get a longlist this year. Usually we get that preliminary list of 20 films that were eligible here and then get this list of 10. Now all we have is this, and I feel like we can almost instantly pick which five or six are the actual contenders. I’m gonna assume that the reason we didn’t get the list of 20 is because so many films pushed out of the year (mostly theater-going blockbuster type films) that they didn’t really have a list of 20. Which would also explain some of the films on this list, which made me look a bit sideways due to their questionable nature. They seem like films that would’ve been on the list of 20 and not made this. But, in a thinner year, I kinda get it.
Anyway, here’s your Visual Effects shortlist:
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Bloodshot
Love and Monsters
Mank
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Soul
Tenet
Welcome to Chechnya (more…)
Pic of the Day: ♫ “I’m gonna love me again / Check in on my very best friend / Find the wind to fill my sails / Rise above the broken rails / Unbound by any ties that break or bend / I’m free, and don’t you know? / No clown to claim he used to know me then / I’m free, and don’t you know? / And oh-oh-oh, I’m gonna love me again.” ♫
