Interplanetary war in the far future made a huge splash at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony last night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood as Dune took home six of the coveted gold trophies.
The film adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal 1965 novel is the second most successful sci-fi movie at the Oscars after Mad Max:Fury Road.
It was no surprise that this lavish production scored high marks on many voters' ballots with its sweeping vistas of the sands of Arrakis, feuding royal Houses, titanic alien worms, savage futuristic combat, and the prophecy of a superbeing. We have a streaming guide for Dune that will show you how to see it.
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The epic sci-fi adaptation entered the event with ten nominations, and took home Oscars for cinematography, editing, score, visual effects, production design and sound. Its only losses were for costume design and adapted screenplay.
Jon Spaihts was co-written by Villeneuve and Eric Roth.
It had a stellar cast that included: Rebecca Ferguson (The Greatest Showman), Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina), and Timothée Chalamet (The King).
Several technical craft Oscar categories were presented one hour prior to the live Academy Awards telecast this year, with the winners' acceptance speeches edited into the main broadcast throughout the program.
As part of that earlier ceremony, the Best Sound Oscar was presented to the supervising sound editors Mark Mangini and Theo Green, rerecording mixers Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett, and production sound mixer Mac Ruth.
To do this for Denis is very close to my heart. He is a wonderful human and one of the best filmmakers I have ever worked with.
At the pre-show handout, Joe Walker won for Best Film Editing. The grand prize and Oscars for Best Production Design went to Zsuzsanna and Patrice.
The Batman's director, Graig Fraser, won his first Oscar for Best Cinematography, while the legendary composer, Hans Zimmer, won Best Original Score.
The grand prize for BestVisual Effects was well-deserved. The winning crew included production VFX supervisor Paul Lambert, special effects supervisor Gerd Nefzer, and videographer Tristan Myles.
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