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Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Visual Effects

This is a category that significantly favors best picture nominees.

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Dune: Part Two
Photo: Warner Bros.

Out of respect for the weekend crowd, we’re keeping this shorter than Better Man’s box office run. Besides, we need not contort ourselves into resembling the Xenomorph-human hybrid creature from Alien: Romulus to say that this race is one film’s to lose. There’s sentiment around Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, as the franchise has yet to win an Oscar for its visual effects. But this is a category that significantly favors best picture nominees. We have two of those in the mix this year, and while a vote split might result in a welcome win for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, let’s not kid ourselves into pretending that Wicked’s flying monkeys hold a candle to the awe-inspiring grandeur of Dune: Part Two’s sandworms.

Will Win: Dune: Part Two

Could Win: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Should Win: Dune: Part Two

Ed Gonzalez

Ed Gonzalez is the co-founder of Slant Magazine. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

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