GIGI & NATE longlisted for the 2022 VFX Academy Award

Delighted that GIGI & NATE has been longlisted for the 2022 Visual Effects Academy Award alongside AVATAR, TOP GUN: MAVERICK, THE BATMAN and JURASSIC WORLD : DOMINION.

Big congrats to our VFX Supervisor Scott Anderson, Grant Hewlett, Axis Studios VFX supervisor, Marion Evain, Axis Studios Lead CFX and Han-Ter Park, Axis Studios Animation lead and all the wider team at Axis Studio where the magic happens ! As probably the only truly independent film that is on the list, It’s fantastic to have the quality of the work recognised, especially given the very significant difference in VFX budgets on the longlisted films.

Full list of the 20 films in the running to be shortlisted below.

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)

• “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)

• “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” (Netflix)

• “The Batman” (Warner Bros.)

• “Black Adam” (Warner Bros.)

• “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)

• “Devotion” (Sony Pictures)

• “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (Marvel Studios)

• “Elvis” (Warner Bros.)

• “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

• “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (Warner Bros.)

• “Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)

• “The Gray Man” (Netflix)

• “Jurassic World: Dominion” (Universal Pictures)

• “Gigi & Nate” (Roadside Attractions)

• “Nope” (Universal Pictures)

• “RRR” (Variance Films)

• “Thirteen Lives” (Amazon Studios/MGM)

• “Thor: Love and Thunder” (Marvel Studios)

• “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)