Films shot on film, fake AI controversy, a collection of CG apes, and a trio of nods to Robbie Williams make the list of nominees for Cinematography, Editing and VFX Academy Awards.
Robbie Williams has his paw prints all over the Oscars. In Netflix’s 13-times nominated genre-bending musical drama, Emilia Pérez, his 2013 song ‘Swing Supreme’ plays at a dinner party scene in London that marks a crucial turning point in the characters' lives.
The credits roll and the needle drops on Williams' former band Take That’s ‘Greatest Day’ while the camera tracks down a lineup of fishnet-clad dancers at the start of six-times nominated Anora.
And, of course, in Better Man, Williams thumbs his nose at the establishment in a biopic which receives a single Oscar nod for the VFX rendition of the pop minstrel as a chimp.
Three of the five nominations for Cinematography are shot on old-school celluloid keeping up the astonishing hit ratio of awards-nominated movies shot on film, which is around 5% of all films shot every year.
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