The “Visual Effects” Category at the Academy Awards currently allows only 3 nominees, which in VFX-heavy years can leave several films and studios out of the running. This year in particular saw several films left out as the wealth of films simply overwhelmed the nominations with Avatar, G.I.Joe, G-Force, and others, and next year looks the same as it’s only May and we already have Alice in Wonderland, Iron Man 2, and others. However, it’s not currently decided if this will actually happen yet.
There also seems to be some debate over whether a change like this would decrease the value of the award. Currently there are four Visual Effects artists from each film nominated with a total of twelve people for the category. Should the expansion of five nominated films occur there would be twenty nominated individuals in the category.
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