
GPU-accelerated rendering has already been honored by the Academy this year. We could also leverage the power of NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to enable much faster and very detailed previews of our scenes,” said Damien Fagnou, chief technology officer at MPC Film. “To create the incredibly rich and detailed characters and environments for ‘The Jungle Book,’ we had to create a lot of cutting-edge technologies. “The Jungle Book” is among this year’s nominees for an Academy Award for best visual effects.

28, include “Doctor Strange,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Deepwater Horizon,” “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “The Jungle Book,” which recently received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Special Visual Effects. Those up for the award at this year’s Academy Awards, on Feb. “Wings” earned the earliest official recognition for “engineering effects” 50 years earlier.įast forward nearly a century and you’ll discover that NVIDIA Quadro GPUs have been behind every single movie nominated by the Best Visual Effects award for nine years running.

But that was just the first time the award was formally called that. The Academy Award for best visual effects has been a mainstay of the Oscars since 1977.
