Godzilla is a titan of film making , but now he ’s toppled his loftiest goal yet : award time of year . Just announced at the 2024 Academy Awards , Godzilla Minus One — io9’sfavorite moving picture of 2023 — has won the Oscarfor best VFX .
The picture overcame strong rivalry from the likes of Disney — with Marvel ’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 and 20th Century Studios ’ The Creatorup for nods — and other Western studios to take the prize , one which makes chronicle in a bit of way . It ’s the Godzilla enfranchisement ’s first nominating address ( and now win ) at the Academy Awards in its intimately 70 - year history , and the first Japanese - made film to take the Visual Effects prize . With directorTakashi Yamazakiamong the credited nominees , it ’s also the first clock time in 55 old age a music director has won the FX award since Stanley Kubrick took home the 1969 Academy Award for 2001 : A Space Odyssey .
The belated re - ideate continuity for the monster series , Minus One is define in post - war Japan , and travel along a haunted immature valet named Koichi Shikishima ( Ryunosuke Kamiki ) who fled from his fate as a Kamikaze pilot burner in the waning days of World War II , and the horror of an emergent Godzilla , only for kaiju and past likewise to get up with him as the country works to rebuild and reunite . Anunprecedented box office successaround the world , Minus One ’s original plotted week of theatrical release in the U.S. exsert due to popularity , balloon into a calendar month - long theatrical run that culminated with the departure of a specialblack and white editof the moving-picture show , Godzilla Minus One / Minus Colorearlier this twelvemonth .
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No subsequence is presently in the works , but Yamazaki — whose award - season tour has meet himcourt the potentialof directing in the West , including a aspiration desire towork on Star Wars — hasfloated the potentialin the wake of its monolithic winner . A success made even groovy with this historic profits .
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