Best Visual Effects: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes vs. Interstellar

Often, the winner of this technical category is the most critically well-received film to have strong effects work. However, none of the five nominees here are up for any of the major categories. It should come down to the ambitious conceptual work from Christopher Nolan’s space odyssey and Weta Workshop’s digitally sublime rendering of Caesar and his ape army in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Due to Interstellar’s four extra nominations though, the sci-fi epic has a bit more momentum.