With new rules this year permitting five nominations, the Academy VFX Branch executive committee has picked fifteen films to be checked out at the annual Visual Effects Bakeoff in early January. That's when the committee will narrow the list to ten, and then, five for nominations morning January 25. Predictably, Marvel has three films on the list, below ("Captain America: The First Avenger," "Thor," and "X-Men: First Class"), while DreamWorks has two ("Cowboys & Aliens,""Real Steel"). DreamWorks honcho Steven Spielberg is also a producer on J.J. Abrams' "Super 8.
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