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Japan Wins First Best Visual Effects Oscar for ‘Godzilla Minus One’

'Godzilla Minus One' has made history at the 2024 Academy Awards as the first Godzilla film to win for Visual Effects, or any Oscar period.

Takashi Yamazaki also wrote the screenplay for this latest Godzilla, set after World War II as the Toho monster emerges on the shores of Tokyo, based on the iconic character originated in Ishirô Honda’s flagship 1954 film. From IndieWire’s “Godzilla Minus One” review: “In judging the nobility of self-sacrifice against the ambiguous morality of kamikaze warfare — posed as an injustice not to its targets, but rather to the Japanese soldiers spent like bullet casings by an indifferent state — writer/director Takashi Yamazaki does more than find a renewed purpose for an IP asset impervious to irrelevance. He’s reconciled the series’ pop thrills with the heaviness of its political subtext more skillfully than anyone since the rubber-suit days by melding the two into an ideological spectacle to rival Sergei Eisenstein’s, both in its foregrounded populist leanings as well its rousing, cathartic montage in action.”

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