TheOscarnominations for 2025 have been announced , bring out the true winner of the honor ceremony to be scamp ! As is the face every year,2025 ’s Oscar nominationsare being thoroughly hash out . Not only are discussions being hold regardingpredicted winners among the 2025 Oscar nomineesbut cases are being made for the moving picture not featured . As usual , there were several bigsurprises and snubs in 2025 ’s Oscar candidate , from Denis Villeneuve ’s absence as a Best Director nibble forDune : Part Twoto the deficiency of a nominating speech forChallengers’Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross in Best Original Score .

Although the focus of the2025 Oscars is the Best Picture race , these other conversations are fun to be part of as the world of cinema comes together to celebrate 2024 ’s many excellent film . Interestingly , a vulgar stem has been found throughout one honour at the 2025 Oscars which unveils a startling success story for the class in celluloid . Above the many actors , directors , composers , producers , and cinematographers nominated , the lawful winner of the 2025 Oscars where one family is concerned are monkeys .

Movies With Monkeys In Them Dominated The 2025 Oscars Best Visual Effects Nominations

CGI Monkeys Continue To Dominate Cinema

The class in interrogation is Best Visual Effects , with the nominees being dominated by film including CGI monkeys . This category is already interesting give that it does not curb a superhero movie nomination for the first meter in many years , discounting the COVID-19 - affected year of 2020 . However , the bulk of the five nominating address for 2025 ’s Academy Awards ceremonial occasion have another thing in common : monkeys .

Best Visual Effects Nominees

Alien : Romulus

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Better Man

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

Daniel Craig as James Bond looking at something in No Time to Die

Dune : Part Two

Three of the five nominees for Best Visual Effects let in CGI scallywag of varying capacities . The most obvious nominee in this regard isKingdom of the Planet of the Apes , continuing the acclaim set by its herald afterRise of the Planet of the Apes , Dawn of the Planet of the Apes , andWar for the Planet of the Apeswere all name in the same family . Two other movies in this family also have Simian connexion , fromBetter Man ’s limning of its subject , Robbie Williams , as an ape toWicked ’s winged - monkey guards of the Emerald City .

The Monkey Movies May Not Actually Win The 2025 Best Visual Effects Oscar

The Monkeys Have A Big Fight On Their Hands

Despite these three nominating address proving CGI monkeys to be big winner at the 2025 Oscars , all three of them may precipitate short at the final hurdle . The reason for this is the frontrunner for the category -Dune : Part Two . Denis Villeneuve ’s highly acclaimed 2024 film boast Brobdingnagian CGI element , from the preternatural environments of Arrakis and Giedi Prime to the tool of the former , like the giant sandworms .

sand dune : Part Twowas also the most critically clap of the five nominees , receiving a 92 % blessing rating on Rotten Tomatoes . This could sweep the category in its favor . Regardless , it is clear that CGI effort in Hollywood are perfect the depiction of apes and other simians , thoughDune : Part Two ’s warm , almost unnoticeable visual effect may bear witness too telling to give the monkeys a true winnings at 2025’sOscars .

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The Oscar statue next to the CGI apes from Better Man (2024) and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

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