{"id":3154,"date":"2018-03-05T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/05\/blade-runner-2049-wins-best-visual-effects-at-oscars\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T05:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T05:58:44","slug":"blade-runner-2049-wins-best-visual-effects-at-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/03\/05\/blade-runner-2049-wins-best-visual-effects-at-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade Runner 2049 wins Best Visual Effects at Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chancellor Agard\/ Entertainment Weekly\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2937\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/-\/media\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-07-at-12.23.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Blade Runner 2094<\/i>\u2018s futuristic version of LA has been rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the 2018 Academy Awards Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, and Ana de Armas, the sci-fi film pics up 30 years after the original\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>\u00a0and follows new blade runner Office K (Gosling) as he investigates a mystery that leads him right to Ford\u2019s retired blade runner, Rick Deckard. Although Nelson, the film\u2019s VFX supervisor, had better technology at his disposal than the original film did, there was a conscious attempt to not overuse digital effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the new movie, we had the technology to do things better. But so many films have been based on\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>, with new technology, and all they do is add tons of stuff. It\u2019s overkill sometimes,\u201d said Nelson in an interview with\u00a0Deadline.\u00a0\u201cWe really wanted the film to feel analogue\u2026 The point is that we had the new technology, but we consciously reined in our effects a bit, and I think we\u2019re a better film for it. CG does shiny things well, but we didn\u2019t like shiny things in our movie. We liked dirty, wet, grimy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Blade Runner 2049<\/em>\u00a0beat out\u00a0<em>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Kong: Skull Island<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>War of the Planet of the Apes<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Agard\/ Entertainment Weekly\u00a0 Blade Runner 2094\u2018s futuristic version of LA has been rewarded. John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the 2018 Academy Awards Sunday. 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