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CBC
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Dune: Part 2 VFX producer reveals secrets to movie's Oscar win
Vancouver's Stephen James, with visual effects studio DNEG, hoisted an Academy Award last weekend for his work on the blockbuster film Dune: Part Two, directed by Montreal's Denis Villeneuve. The visual effects producer said shooting on location and bringing a documentary-movie-like mindset helped the team bag the award.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
B.C. ‘Dune' VFX supervisor Stephen James ‘in a daze' after winning Oscar
B.C.'s Stephen James was part of the team that won the best visual effects Oscar for 'Dune: Part Two' on Sunday night. The visual effect supervisor says he was 'in a daze' getting swept up in a moment as big as the cinematic sandworms he helped create. (Mar. 3, 2025)
CBC
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Vancouver visual effects supervisors among team to win Oscar for "Dune: Part Two"
Social Sharing Vancouver's Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe are part of a team that won the best visual effects Oscar for work on "Dune: Part Two." They accepted the award during Sunday's bash along with England's Paul Lambert and Germany's Gerd Nefzer. The film sees Quebec director Denis Villeneuve continue his adaptation of Frank Herbert's acclaimed science fiction novel. The sequel, which features mind-bending visuals of giant sandworms and otherworldy desert landscapes, follows Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides as he seeks revenge against those who destroyed his family. James and Salcombe work for Vancouver-based DNEG and were visual effects supervisors on the film. WATCH | Sugarcane documentary on residential school trauma in B.C. nominated for an Oscar: Sugarcane documentary on residential school trauma in B.C. nominated for an Oscar 1 month ago Duration 10:33 Best Documentary Feature academy award nominee Sugarcane explores residential school intergenerational trauma and resilience. The film is based on events that happened in Williams Lake, B.C. Filmmakers Julian Brave Noisecat, of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'secen' First Nation, and Emily Kassie say the point is to understand the stakes of the residential schools today. "Dune: Part Two" beat out the teams behind "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes," "Better Man," "Alien: Romulus" and "Wicked." Earlier in the night, nominated Canadians came up short several creative categories, including best costume design, and production design. In the best documentary category, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie were in the running for their film "Sugarcane," which investigates abuses at a B.C. residential school, but they lost to "No Other Land."
