Technicolor Congratulates Oscar Winners Who Pushed the Boundaries of Entertainment

Technicolor teams provided VFX for Oscar winners that brought animated creatures and characters to vivid life on screen.

21 of the films nominated for various honors were serviced by Technicolor.

For filmmakers and storytellers and the scores of talented artists behind the scenes, the 90th Academy Awards marked the pinnacle of awards season. As an industry leader known for bringing together cutting-edge technology and artistry, Technicolor not only worked on many of the Best Picture and other nominees, but provided VFX for two of the big winners at this year's Oscars race.

Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, the most heavily nominated picture, won top honors, taking home the Academy Award for Best Picture and Director, as well as Production Design and Original Score. MR. X from the Technicolor family of brands, a frequent collaborator of del Toro, reteamed with the director to provide all of the visual effects and seamless creature animation for his visually distinctive, genre-bending, and now Oscar-winning masterwork. del Toro wanted the audience to fall in love with his amphibian creature as much as it did his heroine, prompting Mr. X to develop an animation rig that greatly expanded the creature's capacity to emote and connect with filmgoers.

Blade Runner 2049 not only gave Roger A. Deakins his long-deserved win for Cinematography, but also won an Oscar for Visual Effects. Along with this winning team, Technicolor VFX house MPC also was honored to have worked on the film. MPC created a photoreal CG version of the pivotal Rachael character, hand-animating her entire performance and recreating her exact look and mannerisms as if she hadn't aged a day since the original film 35 years prior. The team worked closely with Director Denis Villeneuve and the film's Oscar-winning Production VFX Supervisor John Nelson.

Also of note, Technicolor Marketing Services was honored to have contributed work on Icarus, which won in the Documentary Feature category. The film by Bryan Fogel is a Netflix Original Documentary uncovering the truth behind a major Olympics scandal, one of the biggest in sport's history.

Visit the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the full list of Oscar winners and congratulations to all of Technicolor's creative clients and collaborators!

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