Oscar’s VFX shortlist goes 3-D

The backwards-aging Benjamin Button, Batman and Iron Man are in, but Indiana Jones and James Bond are out as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the shortlist of seven films that will vie for the visual effects Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. For the first time in its history, the list, announced Tuesday, includes a 3-D movie, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Eric Brevig’s live-action reworking of the Jules Verne classic.

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