Overview
- Michael Ralla and Guido Wolter lost the Academy Award for visual effects to Avatar: Fire and Ash.
- 'Blood & Sinners' entered the ceremony with a record 16 Oscar nominations, the most in the awards’ history.
- Ralla devised a halo rig with up to twelve cameras to record Michael B. Jordan’s facial performance for seamless doubles work.
- The nominated VFX team, including Donnie Dean and Espen Nordahl, delivered nearly 1,000 shots over roughly 18 months, with work based at Rising Sun Pictures in Australia.
- At a pre‑Oscars reception at the Wende Museum, Ralla highlighted diversity and immigration as central to American filmmaking.