While Avatar: The Way Of Water, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and a bunch of other sequels may have colonised (sorry) Variety’s list this year, there are a couple of surprise inclusions.
Variety’s predictions
- Avatar: The Way Of Water
- Ryan Tudhope (visual effects supervisor)
- Scott R. Fisher (special effects coordinator)
- Seth Hill (visual effects supervisor)
- Bryan Litson (visual effects supervisor)
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Joe Letteri
- Richard Baneham
- Eric Saindon
- Daniel Barrett
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Geoffrey Baumann (vfx supervisor)
- Craig Hammack (vfx supervisor)
- Hanzhi Tang (vfx supervisor)
- Dan Sudick (sfx supervisor)
- RRR
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- Guillaume Rocheron
- Jeremy Robert (visual effects supervisor)
- Sreejith Venugopalan (DFX supervisor)
- Scott R. Fisher (special effects coordinator)
Others they think are in with a shout
- Good Night Oppy
- Ivan Busquets
- Abishek Nair (visual effects supervisor)
- Marko Chulev (digital supervisor)
- Steven Nichols (digital supervisor)
- Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
- Zak Stoltz (visual effects supervisor)
- Ethan Feldbau (visual effects lead artist)
- Benjamin Brewer (visual effects lead artist)
- Jeff Desom (visual effects artist)
- The Gray Man
- Swen Gillberg
- Bryan Grill
- Cliff Welsh
- Harry Bardak
- All Quiet On the Western Front
- Markus Frank
- Viktor Muller
- Frank Petzold (vfx supervisor)
- Kamil Jafar (sfx supervisor)
Other contenders in their opinion
- Jurassic World: Dominion
- David Vickery
- Alex Wuttke (visual effects supervisor)
- Paul Corbould (SFX supervisor)
- Neal Scanlan (creature FX creative supervisor)
- The Batman
- Dan Lemmon (visual effects supervisor)
- Russell Earl (visual effects supervisor)
- Anders Langlands (visual effects supervisor)
- Dominic Tuohy (special effects supervisor)
- Elvis
- Tom Wood (visual effects supervisor)
- Julian Hutchens (visual effects supervisor)
- Joshua Simmonds (visual effects supervisor)
- Adam Hammond (digital effects supervisor)
- Gigi & Nate
- Scott E. Anderson (VFX supervisor)
- Grant Hewlett (Axis Studios VFX supervisor)
- Marion Evain (Axis Studios lead CFX)
- Han-Ter Park (Axis Studios animation lead)
- Thirteen Lives
- Jason Billington (visual effects supervisor)
- Brian Cox (special effects supervisor)
- Bruce Bright (special effects assistant supervisor)
- Bardu, False Chronicles Of A Handful Of Truths
- Guillaume Rocheron (vfx supervisor)
- Olaf Wendt (vfx supervisor)
- Devotion
- Brian Connor
- Fabricio Baessa
- Matthew Lane
- J.D. Schwalm
- Thor: Love & Thunder
- Jake Morrison
- Pete Dionne
- Luke Millar (VFX supervisor)
- Dan Oliver (SFX supervisor)
- Black Adam
- Bill Westenhofer (visual effects supervisor)
- Sheldon Stopsack (visual effects supervisor)
- Nikos Kalaitzidis (visual effects supervisor)
- J.D. Schwalm (special effects supervisor)
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore
- Christian Manz
- Benjamin Loch
- Stephane Naze (visual effects supervisor)
- Alistair Williams (special effects supervisor)
Source: Variety