{"id":41706,"date":"2016-12-02T13:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=41706"},"modified":"2016-12-02T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:16:46","slug":"deadpool-and-x-men-apocalypse-on-shortlist-for-academy-awards-vfx-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=41706","title":{"rendered":"DEADPOOL and X-MEN: APOCALYPSE on shortlist for Academy Awards VFX nominations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28665\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?attachment_id=28665\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oscar1.jpg?fit=219%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"219,397\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"oscar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oscar1.jpg?fit=219%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oscar1.jpg?resize=219%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"oscar\" width=\"219\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oscar1.jpg?w=219&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oscar1.jpg?resize=165%2C300&amp;ssl=1 165w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oscar1.jpg?resize=77%2C140&amp;ssl=1 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/news\/20-contenders-advance-vfx-oscar-race-0\" target=\"_blank\">The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a> today announced that 20 films are in the running for the 89th Academy Awards&#8217; &#8220;Visual Effects&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/deadpool\/\">DEADPOOL<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-apocalypse\/\">X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a><\/strong> are included on the list!<\/p>\n<p>They will face stiff competition from other films, including: Alice through the Looking Glass, Arrival, The BFG, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, Deepwater Horizon, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Jungle Book, Kubo and the Two Strings, Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children, Passengers, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Trek Beyond, Suicide Squad, Sully and Warcraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy\u2019s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist, which will be lowered to 10 films for the official nominations. They&#8217;ll be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-days-of-future-past\/\">DAYS OF FUTURE PAST<\/a> is the only film in the entire franchise (so far) to receive an official VFX nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to both films!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 20 films are in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,16,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-deadpool","category-x-men-apocalypse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/oscars.jpg?fit=2469%2C1755&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}