Oscar Predictions: Visual Effects — Monkeys, Sandworms and Flying Witches Occupy a Box Office-Friendly Race

2025 Oscars Predictions:
Best Visual Effects

As a film enthusiast with over three decades of immersion in the silver screen world, I must say that the Oscars hold a special place in my heart. Growing up in a small town with only one cinema, I would eagerly save my allowance to watch the latest Academy-awarded films. The magic of those stories, the artistry, and the sheer craftsmanship never failed to captivate me.

Weekly Commentary (Updated Nov. 14, 2024): More to come.

** denotes the film is not yet dated or can open in 2025.

And the Predicted Nominees Are

Rank	Performer & Film
1	“Gladiator II” (Paramount Pictures) Mark Bakowski, Pietro Ponti, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould
2	“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer
3	“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century Studios) TBA
4	“Wicked” (Universal Pictures) Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk
5	“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (Warner Bros.) Andrew Jackson, Dan Bethell, Eric Whipp, Andy Williams



Next in Line

Rank	Performer & Film
6	“Twisters” (Universal Pictures)
7	“Mufasa: The Lion King” (Walt Disney Pictures)
8	“Alien: Romulus” (20th Century Studios)
9	“Better Man” (Paramount Pictures)
10	“Blitz” (Apple Original Films)



Other Contenders

Rank	Performer & Film
11	“Deadpool & Wolverine” (Marvel Studios)
12	“Here” (Sony Pictures)
13	“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” (Warner Bros.)
14	“Nosferatu” (Focus Features)
15	“Civil War” (A24)
16	“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.)
17	“The Wild Robot” (DreamWorks Animation)
18	“Inside Out 2” (Pixar)
19	“The Substance” (Mubi)
20	“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” (Sony Pictures)

Eligible Titles (Best Visual Effects)



** This list is incomplete and not yet finalized. Not all films have distribution or release dates. All are subject to change.

• “Alien: Romulus” (20th Century Studios)
• “All We Imagine as Light” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
• “Anora” (Neon)
• “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment)
• “Babygirl” (A24)
• “Back to Black” (Focus Features)
• “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.)
• “Better Man” (Paramount Pictures)
• “Between the Temples” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “The Bikeriders” (Focus Features)
• “Bird” (Mubi)
• “Black Dog” (The Forge)
• “Blink” (National Geographic) 
• “Blink Twice” (Amazon MGM)
• “Blitz” (Apple Original Films)
• “Bob Marley: One Love” (Paramount Pictures)
• “The Book of Clarence” (Sony Pictures)
• “The Brutalist” (A24)
• “Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid!” (CNN Films)
• “Challengers” (Amazon MGM)
• “Civil War” (A24)
• “The Colors Within” (GKids)
• “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures)
• “Conclave” (Focus Features)
• “The Count of Monte Cristo” (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
• “Daddio” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “Dahomey” (Mubi)
• “Daughters” (Netflix)
• “Day of the Fight” (Falling Forward Films)
• “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Marvel Studios)
• “The Deliverance” (Netflix)
• “Despicable Me 4” (Illumination/Universal Pictures)
• “A Different Man” (A24)
• “Dìdi” (Focus Features)
• “Drive-Away Dolls” (Focus Features)
• “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)
• “Elton John: Never Too Late” (Walt Disney Pictures)
• “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
• “The End” (Neon)
• “Evil Does Not Exist” (Sideshow)
• “Exhibiting Forgiveness” (Roadside Attractions)
• “Ezra” (Roadside Attractions)
• “Fancy Dance” (Apple Original Films)
• “Femme” (Utopia)
• “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM)
• “Firebrand” (Roadside Attractions)
• “Flow” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
• “Frida” (Amazon MGM)
• “The Front Room” (A24)
• “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (Warner Bros.)
• “Girls Will be Girls” (Juno Films)
• “Gladiator II” (Paramount Pictures)
• “Ghostlight” (IFC Films)
• “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures)
• “The Greatest Hits” (Searchlight Pictures)
• “Green Border” (Kino Lorber)
• “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street)
• “Here” (Sony Pictures)
• “Heretic” (A24)
• “His Three Daughters” (Netflix)
• “Hit Man” (Netflix)
• “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” (Warner Bros.)
• “I Am Celine Dion” (Amazon MGM)
• “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)
• “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “The Idea of You” (Amazon MGM)
• “IF” (Paramount Pictures)
• “The Imaginary” (Netflix)
• “In the Summers” (Music Box Films)
• “Inside Out 2” (Pixar)
• “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” (Kino Lorber)
• “It Ends With Us” (Sony Pictures)
• “Janet Planet” (A24)
• “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Warner Bros.)
• “Kinds of Kindness” (Searchlight Pictures)
• “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century Studios)
• “Kneecap” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “The Last Showgirl” (Roadside Attractions)
• “Lee” (Roadside Attractions)
• “Longlegs” (Neon)
• “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” (Warner Bros.)
• “Los Frikis” (Wayward/Range Releasing)
• “Love Lies Bleeding” (A24)
• “Maria” (Netflix)
• “Megalopolis” (Lionsgate)
• “Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films)
• “Misericordia” (Janus Films)
• “Moana 2” (Walt Disney Pictures)
• “Monkey Man” (Universal Pictures)
• “The Most Precious of Cargoes” (StudioCanal)
• “Mothers’ Instinct” (Neon)
• “Mufasa: The Lion King” (Walt Disney Pictures)
• “My Old Ass” (Amazon MGM)
• “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM/Orion)
• “Nightbitch” (Searchlight Pictures)
• “No Other Land” (Antipode Films)
• “Nosferatu” (Focus Features)
• “Oh, Canada” (Kino Lorber)
• “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (A24)
• “One Life” (Bleecker Street)
• “The Order” (Vertical Entertainment)
• “The Outrun” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “Parthenope” (A24)
• “The People’s Joker” (Altered Innocence)
• “The Piano Lesson” (Netflix)
• “Piece by Piece” (Focus Features)
• “Queer” (A24)
• “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures)
• “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” (Netflix)
• “The Return” (Bleecker Street)
• “Rez Ball” (Netflix)
• “The Room Next Door” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “Rumours” (Bleecker Street)
• “Santosh” (Metrograph Pictures)
• “Sasquatch Sunset” (Bleecker Street)
• “Saturday Night” (Sony Pictures)
• “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Neon)
• “September 5” (Paramount Pictures)
• “Shirley” (Netflix)
• “Sing Sing” (A24)
• “The Six Triple Eight” (Netflix)
• “Small Things Like These” (Lionsgate)
• “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount Pictures)
• “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Kino Lorber)
• “Spellbound” (Netflix)
• “Stopmotion” (IFC/Shudder)
• “The Substance” (Mubi)
• “Sugarcane” (National Geographic Documentary Films)
• “Suncoast” (Searchlight Pictures)
• “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” (Warner Bros.)
• “That Christmas” (Netflix)
• “Thelma” (Magnolia Pictures)
• “To a Land Unknown” (Watermelon Pictures)
• “Transformers One” (Paramount Pictures)
• “Tuesday” (A24)
• “Twisters” (Universal Pictures)
• “Ultraman: Rising” (Netflix)
• “Unstoppable” (Amazon MGM)
• “Venom: The Last Dance” (Sony Pictures)
• “Vermiglio” (Janus Films and Sidehow)
• “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix)
• “We Grown Now” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “We Live in Time” (A24)
• “Wicked” (Universal Pictures)
• “The Wild Robot” (DreamWorks Animation)
• “Wildcat” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
• “Will & Harper” (Netflix)
• “Woman of the Hour” (Netflix)
• “Yintah” (Netflix)
• “Young Woman and the Sea” (Walt Disney Pictures)

More Information (Oscars: Visual Effects)



2024’s winning category entry: “Godzilla Minus One” by Toho – Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, Produced by Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima

2024-2025 Oscars Calendar and Timeline – Full awards season calendar here

• Eligibility period: Jan. 1, 2024 – Dec. 31, 2024
• General entry, best picture, RAISE submission deadline: Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024
• Governors Awards: Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024
• Preliminary voting begins Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, at 9 a.m. PT.
• Preliminary voting ends Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, at 5 p.m. PT.
• Oscar Shortlists Announcement: Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024
• Eligibility period ends: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024
• Nominations voting begins Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT.
• Nominations voting ends Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT.
• Oscar Nominations Announcement: Friday, Jan. 17, 2025
• Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Monday, Feb. 10, 2025
• Final voting begins Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT
• Final voting ends: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT
• Scientific and Technical Awards: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025
• 97th Oscars: Sunday, March 2, 2025

Oscars Prediction Categories

—	—
Best Picture	Director
Actor in a Leading Role	Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role	Actress in a Supporting Role
Original Screenplay	Adapted Screenplay
Animated Feature	Production Design
Cinematography	Costume Design
Film Editing	Makeup and Hairstyling
Sound	Visual Effects
Original Score	Original Song
Documentary Feature	International Feature
Animated Short	Documentary Short
Live Action Short	Casting (coming in 2026)

About the Academy Awards

The Oscars, famously known as the Academy Awards, is the most esteemed artistic honor in the film industry, bestowed by Hollywood. Since 1927, nominees and winners have been chosen by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a diverse group of approximately 11,000 individuals. This membership encompasses 19 different branches, including actors, animators, cinematographers, costume designers, directors, documentary creators, executives, editors, makeup artists, marketing professionals, public relations specialists, various at-large members, musicians, producers, production designers, short film creators, sound technicians, visual effects experts, and writers.

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