The Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences have today given a list of the contenders that are competing in the first round of selection for the 84th Academy Awards visual effects Oscar. The usual box-office behemoths are there all with their studios hoping that their film will get enough votes to pass through to the next stage of the process. Take a look and see if you agree with their selection and maybe one of your favourites from this year are amongst them.
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Cowboys & Aliens
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• Hugo
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Real Steel
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Sucker Punch
• Super 8
• Thor
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• The Tree of Life
• X-Men: First Class
These films will be then be whittled down to ten, and then eventually to five a few weeks before the ceremony on the 26th February 2012.
Source: AMPAS
