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Academy Awards shortlists for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup & Hairstyling Oscars revealed

December 20, 2017 by Gary Collinson

After revealing a longlist of twenty films earlier in the month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that ten films remain in contention for a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards. Vying for one of the five nomination slots are:

Alien: Covenant
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Okja
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
War for the Planet of the Apes

Meanwhile, the Academy has also announced seven films in the running for Best Makeup & Hairstyling, which will be narrowed down to three when the final nominations are announced…

Bright
Darkest Hour
Ghost in the Shell
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
I, Tonya
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on January 23rd 2018, with the ceremony itself taking place on March 4th. Let us know in the comments below which films you think are worth of the Oscars for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup & Hairstyling…

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Academy Awards, Oscars

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer who is the Editor-in-Chief of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature 'The Baby in the Basket' and suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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