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| VISUAL EFFECTS | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Chris Pepper | Evan Kost | James Narvey | Kenneth Polishchuk | Júlia Albuquerque | Monika Nikolić | Richard Anthony | Robert Schirmer | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | The Jungle Book | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| 2 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 40 |
| 3 | Arrival | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 26 |
| 4 | Doctor Strange | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 22 |
| 5 | Deepwater Horizon | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| 5 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | ||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| The BFG | ||||||||||||
| Captain America: Civil War | ||||||||||||
| Kubo and the Two Strings | ||||||||||||
| Passengers |
USC Scripter Nominations: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Train Dreams,’ ‘Slow Horses,’ ‘Death by Lightning’ and More 
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Basic Instinct 2’ and ‘The Departed’ (2006) 
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS) Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Leads with 14 
On the Shelf: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle’ trilogy, ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,’ ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia,’ ‘Walking Tall’ and the ‘Babe’ Films Arrive on 4K Blu-ray Releases for Week of December 15