Stayed up all night watching the academy awards, and you’re still not ready to come off that Oscar high? Check out Wired’s timeline of the “top 11 list, in chronological order, of geek-worthy moments in Oscar history.”
1978: It’s Spielberg vs. Lucas, with each nominated for best director. Woody Allen wins, for Annie Hall, but Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind takes home two statuettes (for cinematography and sound effects editing) and George Lucas’ Star Wars wins seven more. Their combined 20 nominations represent an out-of-this-world evening for sci-fi.
1981: Dennis Muren and Richard Edlund share an Oscar for best visual effects for The Empire Strikes Back. Three years later, they’ll win another for Return of the Jedi. In all, these two visual effects wizards have been nominated for a combined 25 Oscars, winning 12, and have been awarded four Scientific and Technical Oscar certificates. Their crowded trophy cabinets make Edlund, who was given a lifetime achievement award at the Sci-Tech Awards earlier this month, and Muren, now Spielberg’s go-to FX guy, two of the most sought-after humans in Hollywood — the Brad Pitts of effects.
1983: Geeks have three films to track on Oscar night, with the spotlight on Poltergeist (three nominations), E.T. (nine nominations, three wins) and Blade Runner (two nominations). It’s proof that genre films — sci-fi, fantasy and horror — are ready for prime time.
Browse the timeline yourself at Wired News. And if a movie you haven’t seen yet won an Oscar, don’t forget about OscarTorrents, the bittorrent site created and maintained by Piratebay!
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