SERENADED BY WOLVERINE AND NOW AN OSCAR NOM,  SWATH EFX EXPERT TALKS ABOUT HIS DWARF WORK AS HE READIES FOR THE OSCARS

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One would think receiving an Oscar nomination would be the highlight of an outstanding special effects career, however in an interview with the Edinburgh Evening News, Philip Brennan tells how he was serenaded by...well....Hugh Jackman. Jealous ladies?  Later for that story.

Brennan who is nominated for an Academy Award as a member of the Visual Effects team for SWATH, told the EEN that being nominated felt "quite surreal."  

A native of Barnton UK, Brennan has been residing in Los Angeles for the past 20 years working on special effects in films such as Les Miserables, the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy, Moulin Rouge, Minority Report and the just wrapped Wolverine II.  Brennan was also honored at the Visual Effect Awards in 2004, according to EEN.

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OSCAR RACE: SEE SWATH'S 

VISUAL EFX VIDEO BREAKDOWN 

Although previously posted on this site, The Mill and Blue Bolt released these videos to show their visual effects work in order to prop up support for their Academy Award Best Visual Effects nomination for SWATH, according to ComicBookMovie.com.

Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson make up the nominated visual effects team.

The 85th Academy Awards will air on February 24th.

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SWATH GETS OSCAR NOMS:
 ATWOOD (COSTUMES) 
VISUAL FX (DWARFS & MORE)

Although there was a hope for Original Song and even Hair and Makeup, however the pride is still there for the nominations received for Snow White and the Huntsman for the 85th Academy Awards.  

As expected previous Academy Award winner Colleen Atwood was nominated for Costume Design.  Her work immediately in the opening scene.  A well deserved nomination.

Next was for the Visual Effects team (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson) which is another well deserved nomination for their work particularly with the dwarfs and troll.  

Read more about their work on SWATH here and here. 

Universal Pictures received even bigger nominations with their film Les Miserables which received nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and more. 

Their successful R-rated comedy Ted also received a nomination for Original Song for "Everybody Needs a Friend."

Read the rest of the Oscar nominations here.

Costume Design

"Anna Karenina" Jacqueline Durran 

"Les Misérables" Paco Delgado 

"Lincoln" Joanna Johnston 

"Mirror Mirror" Eiko Ishioka 

"Snow White and the Huntsman" Colleen Atwood

Visual Effects 

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White

"Life of Pi" Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott 

"Marvel's The Avengers" Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick 

"Prometheus" Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill 

"Snow White and the Huntsman" Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson Writing (Adapted Screenplay)