Vancouver visual effects supervisors among team to win Oscar for Dune: Part Two

Vancouver's Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe are part of a team that won the best visual effects Oscar for work on Dune: Part Two.

They accepted the award during Sunday's bash along with England's Paul Lambert and Germany's Gerd Nefzer.

The film sees Quebec director Denis Villeneuve continue his adaptation of Frank Herbert's acclaimed science fiction novel.

The sequel, which features mind-bending visuals of giant sandworms and otherworldly desert landscapes, follows Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides as he seeks revenge against those who destroyed his family.

James and Salcombe work for Vancouver-based DNEG and were visual effects supervisors on the film.

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Sugarcane documentary on residential school trauma in B.C. nominated for an Oscar

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Best Documentary Feature academy award nominee Sugarcane explores residential school intergenerational trauma and resilience. The film is based on events that happened in Williams Lake, B.C. Filmmakers Julian Brave Noisecat, of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'secen' First Nation, and Emily Kassie say the point is to understand the stakes of the residential schools today.

Dune: Part Two beat out the teams behind Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Better Man, Alien: Romulus and Wicked.

Earlier in the night, nominated Canadians came up short in several creative categories, including best costume design, and production design. 

In the best documentary category, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie were in the running for their film Sugarcane, which investigates abuses at a B.C. residential school, but they lost to No Other Land.