DNEG, a world-leading visible results (VFX), animation, and inventive applied sciences firm for the creation of movie, TV, and immersive content material, was honoured with the Visible Results Oscar for its work on Dune: Half Two on the 97th Academy Awards, which befell final evening in Los Angeles. DNEG VFX Supervisors Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe accepted the distinguished award alongside Manufacturing VFX Supervisor Paul Lambert and Particular Results Supervisor Gerd Nefzer.
Namit Malhotra-owned DNEG wins seventh Oscar for India, eighth for DNEG, as Dune: Half Two wins in VFX
The Academy Awards win is DNEG’s eighth Oscar win since 2011. Previous to tonight’s win, DNEG has additionally been honoured with the Visible Results Oscar for its work on Dune: Half One (2022), Tenet (2021), First Man (2019), Blade Runner 2049 (2018), Ex Machina (2016), Interstellar (2015) and Inception (2011).
Namit Malhotra, DNEG Group Founder and CEO, mentioned: “For our group to be honoured with this 12 months’s Oscar for Visible Results for Dune: Half Two is an unbelievable achievement and one other milestone in our journey. This recognition by the Academy – our eighth VFX Oscar since 2011 – is one other endorsement of the inventive and technical management of our groups right here at DNEG. My heartfelt because of Denis Villeneuve for his imaginative and prescient and management, and to Paul Lambert, Greig Fraser and different key members of the filmmaking group. Particular thanks additionally to Mary Guardian and the group at Legendary, and to everybody at Warner Bros. for as soon as once more giving us the chance to be part of bringing this unbelievable story to the large display. And large congratulations and due to the hundreds of DNEG artists, technicians and help employees all over the world, who all share this honour.”
The Oscar win follows DNEG’s success on the 2025 EE BAFTA Movie Awards, the place its work on Dune: Half Two was honoured with the award for Particular Visible Results.
DNEG’s VFX work on Dune: Half Two was additionally honoured with 4 awards throughout a number of classes on the twenty third Annual Visible Results Society Awards final month. Different recognition contains this 12 months’s Critics Alternative Award for Greatest Visible Results, in addition to awards for Greatest Visible Results and Greatest Movie Visible/Particular Results on the Hollywood Artistic Alliance Astra Awards and the Saturn Awards respectively. The studio’s work was additionally honoured within the Visible Results class at this 12 months’s American Cinematheque ‘Tribute to the Crafts’.
This Oscar win, and the vast recognition of DNEG’s work on Dune: Half Two throughout the complete 2025 awards season, additional cements the studio’s place because the go-to visible results and animation accomplice for filmmakers worldwide.
Rhys Salcombe, VFX Supervisor for DNEG on Dune: Half Two, mentioned: “I am thrilled the group was capable of take house the Oscar for Visible Results this 12 months. It is a direct results of the eagerness and energy that went into the undertaking and speaks to the ability and craft of the a whole bunch of artists and technicians all over the world that contributed. This 12 months’s competitors was significantly robust and I congratulate the opposite nominees for his or her excellent work – it was an honour to be in your organization.”
DNEG VFX Supervisor for Dune: Half Two, Stephen James, added: “I’d wish to thank everybody that performed a component in making this unbelievable movie. Collectively, we have been capable of create visuals that not solely pushed boundaries, but in addition profoundly linked with audiences. It has been the spotlight of my profession to work with such a gifted and passionate group on Dune: Half Two, and to have these efforts recognised by the Academy is an unbelievable honour.”
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