'Ex Machina' winning the Oscar® for Visual Effects

Andy Serkis presenting Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett with the Oscar® for Best Visual Effects for "Ex Machina" at the 88th Oscars® in 2016.

[jakobsanchez]

The most impressive thing about Ex Machina is that those beautiful effects were created with a budget of only $15 million. I'm so glad it won.

[CJODell]

Fun fact: "Ex Machina" was the lowest budgeted film to win the Visual Effects Oscar since "Alien" back in 1979.

[SahilMakhijani]

Glad to know the Oscars finally acknowledged the existence of Andy Serkis

[SoumyadeepBasu]

Visual Effects team of Ex Machina should feel proud, accepting the Award from none other than the legend, Andy Serkis.

[reptongeek]

Sarah Bennett is the first female winner in this category since Aliens won thirty years prior

[WeAreTheInsurgents]

I was so happy that such a small film beat out massive films like Star Wars, Mad Max, The Revenant, etc.

[beto]

the most surprising oscar win ever!! still very deserved!

[Task]

"As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything."
Andy Serkis.

[filmguy]

Gotta love an underdog. Ex Machina, a British indie sleeper hit that came out in April, winning over Mad Max and Star Wars of all movies! Pure bliss.

[TJ]

All of the effects nominees this year were amazing, each for their own reasons. I would've been ok with any of them winning. But when Ava walks onto the screen in Ex Machina, and you can see through her glass body with all the complex wiring going on inside, and it's very clear that Alicia was really there on set (they didn't use any green screen)... that's the first time in years where I honestly couldn't wrap my head around how a movie was able to achieve such a thing. Glad to see such an underdog movie getting a bit of recognition, especially in a category typically associated with huge budgets. The other nominees got more than enough press,

[PV]

Congrats Ex Machina. That film deserved an oscar.

[PV]

Ex Machina feels like a finely crafted piece of art from beginning to end.

[anthonys]

The picture with one the most powerful message of the past year, it's a very important movie for consider in our future, a well-done movie, Congratulations!

[Cinemabuff]

Well deserved. The visual effects in, "Ex Machina" were pretty amazing.

[FantasticBeasts]

I'm so glad Ex Machina took home something. It should have won Best Original Screenplay (over Spotlight) as well. & should have been nominated for Best Picture.

Ex Machina was such a great and unfortunately underrated and under-appreciated film (one of the biggest snubbed films of the year). This win was a nice surprise.

Congratulations Ex Machina, you deserve to be considered an Academy Award Winning Film. 🙂

[cobaltfalcon]

Best moment of this is using Get Down Saturday Night as the winning music

[Zombiesnyder]

That was a major kick in the balls

I expected Alex Garland to win for the Best Original Screenplay, but this is better than nothing.

Besides, Mad Max went home with 6 Oscars

[Zombiesnyder]

For so long, the Best Picture nominated movies are the ones to win for VFX when they are nominated.

And for the first time in the history of the Oscars, a non Best Picture nominated movie beated THREE Best Picture nominated movies

[dfa]

I’m glad that visual effects is not all about space travel and dramatic explosions. The effects in this movie is subtle but detailed.

[hellfire]

Oh 2016... those were the times people couldn't just walk on stage and slap somebody. Anyway, Andy is a legend.