At the heart of it all was VFX house Wētā, which had a crew of over 1000 artists working on delivering 1500 visual effects shots. The film, which won Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal ...

Head of VFX Matt Aitken said this year Wētā FX has more people nominated for the Oscar than at any other point in its history. Wētā has previously won seven Academy Awards for Visual Effects.