Godzilla this year 鈥� and slayed.
The movie 鈥淕odzilla Minus One,鈥� set in the waning days of World War II, won the Oscar for best visual effects, pushing aside such big-budget behemoths as 鈥淣apoleon鈥� and
鈥淕odzilla Minus One,鈥� from writer-director Takashi Yamazaki, marked the first time the prehistoric reptilian monster was nominated for an Oscar in the franchise鈥檚 70-year history. It is the 37th film in the film series, which usually uses Godzilla as a sober symbol of nuclear holocaust and atomic trauma.
鈥淕odzilla Minus One鈥� became the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film ever in the U.S. and Canada. Only two international live-action movies 鈥� and 鈥淟ife Is Beautiful鈥� 鈥� collected more than the $56.4 million grossed by 鈥淕odzilla Minus One.鈥�
Some 610 effects shots were created by Yamazaki, who also served as effects supervisor, and Lacking the budget for hydraulics, the crew shook would shake a boat set to mimic ocean bobbing or rotate a cockpit to simulate flying.
he believes it鈥檚 telling that both he and Christopher Nolan with the epic 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥� were separately drawn back to the dawn of the nuclear era in their moviemaking.
鈥淭he world, in some sense, has forgotten the implications, the impact, the ramifications of what a nuclear war could entail,鈥� Yamazaki said.
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Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press
