2024 Oscar Predictions: VISUAL EFFECTS (November)

The Oscar shortlists will be revealed on December 21, 2023. Visual Effects Society (VES) nominations are January 16, 2024. Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23 and the 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10.

Here are my 2024 Oscar predictions for the 10-film shortlist in Visual Effects for November 2023.

1. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Marvel/Walt Disney)
3. The Creator (20th Century Studios)
4. Spider-Man: Across the Universe (Sony Pictures)
5. Blue Beetle (Warner Bros)
6. The Marvels (Marvel/Walt Disney)
7. The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney)
8. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Paramount Pictures)
9. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Walt Disney)
10. Elemental (Walt Disney/Pixar)

Next up:

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ( Marvel/Walt Disney), Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (Warner Bros), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves (Paramount Pictures), The Killer (Netflix), Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films), Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures), Wonka (Warner Bros)

Other contenders:

Barbie (Warner Bros), Beau is Afraid (A24), Cocaine Bear (Universal Pictures), Ferrari (NEON), The Flash (Warner Bros), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songs and Snakes (Lionsgate), Gran Turismo (Sony Pictures), Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures), Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures), Rebel Moon (Netflix)

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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