His name is Godzilla, hear him roar. The atomic-age monster franchise uncorked by Japan’s Toho Studios 70 years ago has notched several historic milestones with its underdog (or undercat) Oscar win for Best Visual Effects on Sunday.
“Godzilla Minus One” is the first foreign language film and first Japanese production to win this category and the first Godzilla movie to win any Oscar. And director Takashi Yamazaki, who was also VFX supervisor, is the first filmmaker to win for visual effects since Stanley Kubrick won his only Oscar for the effects in “2001: A Space Odyssey” in 1969.
Yamazaki shared the award with his VFX collaborators Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima.
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