The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted from the Art Directors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) being renamed the Designers' branch. Since 1947, the award is shared with the set decorators. It is awarded to the best interior design in a film.
Erik Nash is a three time Oscar nominated visual effects artist.
Dan Sudick is a special effects supervisor. Sudick and his fellow visual effects artists were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, War of the Worlds, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Free Guy, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Michael Silvers is a sound editor who has often worked with Pixar. He has worked on nearly every Pixar feature film.
John Leveque is a sound editor. He has won two BAFTAs for sound and has been nominated by the Motion Picture Sound Editors for sound.
José Antonio Garcia is a Mexican sound mixer. He was nominated at the 85th Academy Awards for the film Argo in the category of Best Sound Mixing. He shared his nomination with John T. Reitz and Gregg Rudloff. He was also nominated at the 91st Academy Awards, along with Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan, for the film Roma.
Steve Courtley is an Australian special effects artist who is most known for his work in The Matrix films.
Jon Thum is a visual effects artist. He contributed work on The Matrix and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. As a supervisor at Prime Focus World in 2012, he led a 70-person team of artists to produce 650 visual effects shots for Dredd 3D.
Russell William Earl is a visual effects supervisor. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards, among other awards.
Lisa Westcott is a British make-up artist. Before winning an Oscar for her work in the successful film Les Misérables (2012), she earned two consecutive nominations for Mrs Brown (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Her other accolades include two BAFTA Awards.
Ben Snow is a special effects artist who has been nominated four times at the Academy Awards. He works at Industrial Light & Magic.
John Bruno is an American visual effects artist and filmmaker known for his prolific collaborations with director James Cameron on films like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, and The Abyss, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
Matt Aitken is a special effects artist.
Larry Dias is a set decorator who was nominated at the 83rd Academy Awards for his work on the film Inception, this was in the category of Best Art Direction. His nomination was shared with Guy Hendrix Dyas and Doug Mowat.
Ged Wright is a visual effects artist and director. He was nominated at the 83rd Academy Awards for his work on the film Iron Man 2. This was in the category of Best Visual Effects. For which his nomination was shared with Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow and Dan Sudick. It lost to Inception. He has also directed an episode of the Paramount+ miniseries Knuckles.
Bryan Grill is a visual effects artist.
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
Kelly Port is an American visual effects artist. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Visual Effects for the films Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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