Godzilla Minus One wins Best Visual Effects at the 2024 Oscars

This Sunday the 96th edition of the Academy Awards was held and the film Godzilla Minus One won in the Best Visual Effects category at the 2024 Oscars.

Godzilla Minus One competed with the films The creator, Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3, Mission Impossible – Reckoning: Part One It is Napoleon.

Takashi Yamazaki is the director and writer, and is also credited for visual effects. Yamazaki has primarily directed live-action films, including the films Always: Sunset on Third Street, Returner, and Parasyte, but has also directed CG films such as Stand By Me Doraemon.

The film’s story takes place in Japan after World War II. Ryunosuke Kamiki plays Kōichi Shikishima and Minami Hamabe It’s Noriko Ōishi.

Also participating in the film are Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andō and Kuranosuke Sasaki.

The film opens in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), the anniversary of the Japanese national release of the original Godzilla film on November 3, 1954. Brazil The film premiered on December 14th, already in Portugal the film premiered on December 28, 2024.