OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon & Daniel Barrett for Avatar: The Way of Water

Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands & Dominic Tuohy for The Batman

Jörundur Rafn Arnarson, Erik Winquist & Joe Letteri for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer & Jeff Desom for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Scott R. Fisher, Jeremy Robert, Guillaume Rocheron & Sreejith Venugopalan for Nope

AND THE WINNER:

JOE LETTERI, RICHARD BANEHAM, ERIC SAINDON & DANIEL BARRETT FOR AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

This is the fifth win and eleventh nomination for Joe Letteri. Letteri previous won for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), King Kong (2005), Avatar (2009), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and was nominated for Mission Impossible (1996), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Hobbit the Desolation of Smaug (2013), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and War of the Planet of the Apes (2017). This is the 2nd win and nomination for Richard Baneham having previously won for Avatar. This is Eric Saindon's first win and third nomination being previously nominated for The Hobbit the Desolation of Smaug & The Green Knight (2021). Finally this is Daniel Barretts second win and third nomination. He also won for Rise of the Planet of the Apes and was nominated for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,

I know I've gone in depth on where I've awarded the visual effect artists before but to end this post quickly what can I say about Avatar winning this award other than of course Way of Water was going to win the visual effects trophy. I'll end it by saying the other films had some incredible visual effect work but Avatar: The Way of Water was just going to be the choice based on quality and amount of budget spent on achieving some incredible work.