This is going to win Best VFX?

I mean, not a single film nominated in this category deserves to win. The Best VFX category is often the easiest to predict. Ok must say I thought last year's award would go to the Revenant but Ex_Machina is definitely the deserved winner.

This year however... Jungle Book had many obvious green screen shots, awkward looking talking wolves, everything was too clean, fake looking fire and some fake looking trees here and there. Sure, for the most part the VFX looked good if not great but Oscar worthy only in nomination, not win.

The other nominated films are Deepwater Horizon, Doctor Strange, Kubo and the Two Strings and Rogue One. I mean, then it should go to either Deepwater Horizon or Kubo and the Two Strings. Couldn't really see any fake shots. Deepwater Horizon had the best CG fire I've ever seen and Kubo's VFX were neat. Rogue One had some iffy CG character shots from Tarkin and Leia and some iffy ships but overall actually better VFX than TFA lol
Doctor Strange also had too many obviously green screen shots and some soft looking backgrounds.

The award should go to either Deepwater Horizon or Kubo and the Two Strings. Not to the others. They simply don't deserve it.

Ironically, next year is bound to be full of heavy hitters. Think of Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, The Last Jedi, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Kong Skull Island, Valerian and the city of a thousand planets and I probably missed some. Then again, only a couple are going to get nominated. Dunkirk got the advantage of it's VFX probably being rendered in at least 5.6K but on the other hand the vast majority of the film is brought to life by practical effects. Blade Runner 2049 also got the advantage of being finished in 4K entirely, but there also with VFX to support, not lead. By that I mean most likely no full CG shots or characters. Although I do remember there was going to be a de-aged character. Must say they're pretty good at that.

War, what is it good for?