THIS YEAR’S 86th Academy Awards
honoured some of the strongest contenders
in the Best Visual Effects category, including
‘Iron Man 3’, ‘The Lone Ranger’, ‘Star Trek
Into Darkness’, and the winner, science
fiction thriller ‘Gravity’, directed by
Alfonso Cuarón. The film also went on to
win six accolades from the Visual Effects
Society. The award was a major accolade
for the film’s visual effects supervisor, Tim
Webber, but also for the creative studio that
generated the film’s visual effects (VFX),
UK company Framestore. It also highlighted
the leading position UK VFX studios now
occupy, and how advances in information
and communications technology have
facilitated many of these achievements.