Godzilla is a titan of moviemaking, however now he’s toppled his loftiest aim but: award season. Simply introduced on the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One—io9’s favorite movie of 2023—has received the Oscar for best VFX.
The film overcame sturdy competitors from the likes of Disney—with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and twentieth Century Studios’ The Creator up for nods—and different Western studios to take the prize, one which makes historical past in quite a few methods. It’s the Godzilla franchise’s first nomination (and now win) on the Academy Awards in its practically 70-year historical past, and the primary Japanese-made movie to take the Visible Results trophy. With director Takashi Yamazaki among the many credited nominees, it’s additionally the primary time in 55 years a director has received the FX award since Stanley Kubrick took house the 1969 Academy Award for 2001: A House Odyssey.
The newest re-imagined continuity for the monster collection, Minus One is ready in post-war Japan, and follows a haunted younger man named Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) who fled from his destiny as a Kamikaze pilot within the waning days of World Battle II, and the horrors of an emergent Godzilla, just for kaiju and previous alike to meet up with him because the nation works to rebuild and reunite. An unprecedented box office success around the globe, Minus One’s unique deliberate week of theatrical launch within the U.S. prolonged as a consequence of recognition, ballooning right into a months-long theatrical run that culminated with the discharge of a particular black and white edit of the movie, Godzilla Minus One/Minus Shade earlier this year.
No sequel is at the moment within the works, however Yamazaki—whose award-season circuit has seen him court the potential of directing within the West, together with a dream need to work on Star Wars—has floated the potential within the wake of its monumental success. Successful made even higher with this historic win.
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