'Life of Pi' Wins the Oscar for Best Visual Effects | 85th Oscars (2013)

[@Planetrefactor]

What an awful treatment of such a talented team.

[@Chada-uNîzam-îCedîd]

Lıfe of pı vısual effect team they bankrupt 1 week later

[@呀你可]

@@Chada-uNîzam-îCedîd really 😢 how they dealt with it in the end then?

[@sauravhegde6153]

@@呀你可 they lay off many off their employess to recover from it

[@呀你可]

@@sauravhegde6153 unfair to those employees

[@lavanfirestorm]

They cut their speech because they wanted to talk about how poorly paid the VFX industries are getting paid by Hollywood. In most movies, the studios only get about 5% cut. Hollywood looks for cheap studios, especially overseas to do their VFX for cheap and the American companies need to lower their bid to get producers to hire them. Life of Pi was mostly shot on green screen therefore most of the movie involves effects. Imagine doing most of the movie and only getting 5% of the proceeds! Rhythm and Hues, the studio they work for, just laid off 200 employees right before the Oscars. With the amount they received from movies sales, they can't afford to pay their special effect artists.

[@rustylarry7465]

You cant really fault hollywood for going the cheap route, it's called competition. It's the government's fault for why the cost of living is so high, too much beauracracy, i say just embrace free trade, not with all this tariffs and such. Now as for what transpired here, i'm conflicted and at a loss for words, on the other hand rdj seems to be giving them due credit, but as always it looks like him giving them pity, the rich man pitying the poor, and doing nothing, y'know gaining the moral high ground making himself look better and virtuous, thats the problem i have with these very left leaning actors, their politics, remember the joss whedon polotical ad, yikes. samuel jackson said that giving them the award is enough respect, i think so too, the actors are employees also, imagine speaking up against your bosses. If there was an analogy, it'd be the difference between america and japan, in regards to tips in restaurants and such, the former expects you to tip, the employer and employee, because they only get paid by the employer if the quota from tips were insufficient and just give them the rest of the money that until that quota is reached, unless you have the good looks or are enthusiastic towards the customer(you can get bigger pay from tips sure if you're lucky), you'll rarely earn tips, very toxic work environment(very demeaning job like retail, amazon employee, fast food), more than half don't want to be waiting tables, they have their dreams too, now they're expected to force a smile and do your best despite the low prospect of actually having a raise, inflation can be a son of a bitch; now the latter doesn't not expect you to tip, in fact they treat it as disrespect, you viewed them like they get the short end of the stick in life, and now its your responsibility to pity and give this viewed as "low-earning employee" extra cash like a beggar in the street needing cash. Hollywood as an entity should stop gatekeeping in political views, you get left leaning people, actors, directors, writers and such, because hollywood does not condone right leaning talent. They should just shut up and be professional, stop with this virtue signalling bullshit, like they had a clean slate in the first place. Hollywood is bleeding, it is imploding, 8 years after your comment, everyone is having fatigue from mediocre content like star wars and the mcu. This is a good example of why hollywood can be insufferable, they should just shut their mouth an do their job, the nature of their work is morally neutral and should treat it as such, you do not have an inherent responsibility to virtue signal, youre just an actor, your inherent responsibility is to do your best to provide quality entertainment, nothing more and nothing less.

[@rustylarry7465]

Now for what you were saying, yeah cutting off speeches is not cool, these actors get to preach some toxic ideas and fragile idealogies, or just deplorable virtue signalling to make themselves look better, i dont see them getting their speeches cut, but we get the speeches of vfx artists who get paid less for what work they put in cut, seems unfair to me

[@NormanTiner]

@@rustylarry7465 you absolutely can fault them and should. Some things that are legal are still morally and ethically wrong.

[@jurgennicht4626]

Nope. I came here with the attitude "I want to see those monsters cut him off right when he addresses a serious problem", but what I found is that the "your speaking time ended" music starts way before he starts speaking about the VFX problem. Which still IS a serious problem to address.

[@claywilson6149]

@@rustylarry7465 dude ...I worked with these scum for 20 odd years . I had more fun on the commercials and eventually specialised with that medium , simply because the 'Hollywood crowd' breeds the worse in both film maker and the craft . Working for 'corporate mind control' wasn't any better either , but at least i didnt have to deal with overbearing self important actors who have no personality and basic manners .

[@lllSASlll]

"QUICK CUT HIM OFF! He's trying to expose the mistreatment of the VFX Industry and its artists!"

[@Lucas-up9wq]

smh

[@hampTC]

wow.. unbelievably disrespectful to cut him off. I am speechless.

[@bim-okoje5770]

Dedex fgkjasdhgoasfhgojahdfojghaofshg you google "what happened to Rythm and Hues and how hollywood studios rip off vfx companies and artists" cause I guess you didn't understand that that there was a horrible insult.

[@IronicHavoc]

@@subcold7104 Do some research

[@awesomebacon1075]

No no, they were speechless

[@subcold7104]

@@bim-okoje5770 Apologize for my 2 year old dumb comment... yeah i done search it what awful fate that happened to them hollywood screwed them... but some vfx artist became youtube reactor now good for them...

[@Lucas-up9wq]

It’s not disrespectful smfh, everyone, no matter who, has to stay inside the time limit. There’s always clock in front of them showing how long they have.

[@AliceT800]

The actors announcing the nominees get so say all that crap not funny at all, and the ones who won are not even allowed to thank their team or make a speech.

[@MyJooniverse]

Very true. That was so incredibly rude!! It's like Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech all over again.

[@newsiesforever208]

It was scripted, so it's not like they had a choice. Considering the films they are a part of wouldn't be nearly as good without visual effects, they probably do respect them, but an actor knows to follow a script.

[@dhrgkbqxtjr2743]

@@newsiesforever208 The disrespectful part was how they played the music when he was thinking his parents for supporting him and then cut the live telecast when he was trying to inform the world about how VFX companies are mistreated and financially exploited by studios.

[@heypal8072]

Yes let the Avengers cast have their own 5 minute skit presenting an award but as soon as the lesser-knowns start speaking too much, cut them off

[@eraabazi3725]

Relax dude they only talked for 1 and a half minute

[@premrajkhare8207]

Injustice with Vfx artist is not good. But I think it was protocol of Oscar to give 45 sec to every award receiver. And orchestra playing shows that they are exceed tha time.

[@eraabazi3725]

@Aggressive Filmmaker I don’t think it’s precisely about wealth, more about how famous they are and how much the public values them.

[@eraabazi3725]

@Aggressive Filmmaker I’m pretty sure that everybody at the Oscars is wealthy.

[@premrajkhare8207]

@Aggressive Filmmaker hey men or women, I don't know who you are. Calm down and read it. I never gives my opinion on behalf of Injustice. Whenever I have seen Oscar after exceeding time limit they plays orchestra. That's why I wrote. And might be for best actor, actress and picture they takes liberty. Or if is it the deliberately or biasdness of Oscar so I consider your thoughts.

[@Lanooski]

* Scripts opening satirizing the disregard for the importance of VFX ** Disregards the importance of VFX

[@humpty4205]

True

[@jaredlam7897]

It almost felt like it was mocking them. Not blaming the Avengers cast here, I blame the fucking rich tool who was actually paid to write these unfunny back and forths

[@In-N-Out333]

Is the Academy trying to show off how rude they were to R&H by uploading this video?

[@minhaj_khan]

I'm surprised they even uploaded this. Unless the person in charge of the KZbin channel is in support of the VFX community

[@ChrisHillmon]

How did they not get backlash from this?! So unexceptionable.

[@micahcook2408]

We weren’t in the era of Woke yet that started in 2016.

[@micahcook2408]

K Brunson The Director of Life of PI went over the exceeded time. They let that happen to various artists. I remember one actor telling them to cut the music while they gave the rest of their speech. Hollywood is like any other form of media or industry... it’s sticky, complicated, and can be cruel.

[@AtmoStk]

@@micahcook2408 what the fuck do woke morons have to do with this you idiot?

[@micahcook2408]

@@AtmoStk fuck you

[@ZoeAlleyne]

They mean that, at the end of the speech they were trying to draw attention to the fact that the studio that did ALL the effect for Life of Pi was in serious financial trouble. The company has since become bankrupt. But the Academy played music over the serious message they were trying to send. Personally I don't see why the VFX industry doesn't unionise and strike?

[@samgod]

Hollywood guilds & unions formed decades ago and the industry won't let VFX artists organize. Since it's against their own interests for overseas VFX artists to participate in an American strike, if we strike here in California, the studios will just work with those in New Zealand, Canada, or the UK.

[@tirthpatel1562]

We're past the Regan era my guy. Ain't no one lettin VFX artists or Game Designers get into any Unions. How will the corpos subject those people to horrific work hours and low pay.

[@ZoeAlleyne]

@@tirthpatel1562 I'm very happy to see more and more game studios setting up unions. That's right, my pretties, seize the means of production!

[@1783W]

Mate that’s why it’s called a union. People have to unite for this purpose.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

Because VFX industry and any other computer tech focus industry is filled with right-wing tech-bro libertarians who don't even have the words "solidarity", "unions" or "collective bargaining" in their lexicon. They think that if they prove themselves with a marketable skill then OBVIOUSLY the invisible hand of the free market will reward them for their labor. Workers 200 years ago learned that this is just a fantasy that in capitalism works only on paper.

[@dipayan412]

This is bad. These people worked so hard for the film. They have given their best work of their life time so far for making this masterpiece to become a reality. And what happens then? They went bankrupt. Think about the workers. After all these hard work they even dont get their wage. Even on the stage they did not get a chance to share their sorrow and rudely their mic was cut off. These people are not only workers. In my opinion they are artists. Richard Parker is a truth in millions of heart because of their perfectness in art. I am feeling so sorry for them. I hope this fixed price contract or whatever it is said, this bullshit will be resolved in near future. Artists should be paid with due respects, otherwise it will hurt art eventually.

[@robonthecob6920]

Playing the jaws theme to disregard their speech to imply he’s talking too long while simultaneously letting other award winners talk longer? Completely disrespectful and hypocritical. VFX is one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated aspects of filmmaking as is, and this stuff is sickening.

[@Lucas-up9wq]

I hope you’re joking

[@premrajkhare8207]

I think it is protocol of Oscar. Every person gets only 45 sec to deliver speech that's why.

[@dhritidutta6231]

@@Lucas-up9wq You don't know anything, what that VFX artists were going through. They deserve respect. Instead of stupid skits , time should be given to speeches...

[@CoreyCat4]

Nine years later, Will Smith aggrandizes himself for up to six minutes upon winning the Oscar for Best Actor after assaulting Chris Rock and not being asked by producers to leave.

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

I frankly don't even understand and I'm a native English speaker. These guys won for their hard work on visual effects, and as he was trying to pay tribute to the field of visual effects and thank those who contributed to their effort, the music rudely comes in prematurely and cuts him off, even though they (the Oscars) would never do this disrespectful thing to an actor or a director. The visual effects studio responsible for Life of Pi went bankrupt due to unfair conditions in the industry.

[@phabiorules]

I'm pretty sure they did it to Leonardo Dicaprio. After his first Oscar win, he started talking about global warming and they played music. Playing music is their way of telling people to get off the stage.

[@narrow3601]

@@phabiorules bro seriously they hate when people get too real in their world of fantasy

[@williamhardee8863]

⁠@@narrow3601It’s not just when they bring up something they don’t want to be brought up, they do the music trick to push anyone who goes over the allotted speaking time off the stage. It was just bad timing; he didn’t even start talking about bankruptcy till after the music started.

[@miguelibarrafotograma]

that was so disrespectful.

[@passivedre]

Why?

[@subcold7104]

just google it "what is sarcasm jokes?"

[@gabepicsproductions]

Party Boi the oscar winners were going on to speak about the state of treatment of visual effects studious in big budget Hollywood films. Essentially the studious are incredibly overworked and work in increasingly worse conditions (lack of benefits, holidays and worse). This is due to increase in demand of visual effects work in big blockbusters without the budget required to fully meet these demands. For example, Marvel films now can have around 1000-3000 visual effects shots in a given film, even with their insane budget it is very difficult to achieve the amount of work done in the amount of time given. The speaker began to talk about an artist in sever financial trouble and his mike was cut off to prevent this.

[@bookeblade]

How?

[@micahcook2408]

Benjamin Elkanem the joke they made in the beginning before the award was given out, and during that time R&H had gone bankrupt and VFX artists and studios were on strike.

[@JohnyBuzzkillKidd]

And that is why the Oscars is a load of bollocks. It's all about the money.

[@swahnz]

"Remember during the Oscars ceremony when that one guy tried to say something but got cut off by the theme from Jaws, and everyone laughed? Yeah, he was trying to tell you that the same company that created those impressive visuals is now in the gutter." I beg the differ.

[@devrishic]

What a great way to reward hundreds of artists who work so hard over the years to make the visual delight that everyone enjoys and their representative is not even allowed to thank them publicly..let alone tell their dire state of existence...

[@joevictor53]

It wasn't because they were talking too long. Other people talked for 4 minutes and they let them go on that long. It was just them being rude and not letting these guys use their chance to shine a light on something important to them

[@Niceone11202011]

If Samuel L Jackson hosted the Oscars it would be one of the shortest award show yet. "Just give them the damn award"

[@Met182]

I didn't get the "comedy" bit at the start. Are they implying that the VFX artists are beneath getting respect and their intro should be skipped over because they're just computer nerds or something?

[@Captain-Jinn]

+Met182 Fairly certain Downey wasn't acting. Seemed genuinely pissed off, and there wasn't any timing or comedy between them.

[@betom3118]

What the hell? Why did they do that? So disrespectful

[@fd3]

If you looked on Cracked... they started playing the Jaws music and humor, to block out the fact that the special effects company Rhythm & Hues went backrupt after providing for the move. Just to not acknowledge them. That...is... messed up.

[@TheMontageFellow]

A great disrespect to a economically unstable VFX company that was apart of a spectacular movie that relies heavily in VFX. Give VFX boys a chance. They're the ones responsible providing awesome effects that we always love.

[@CallMeMrX]

Cut the man off before he gets to thank all the hundreds of artists who lost their jobs and their livelihoods after putting in months of overtime, Hollywood is despicable and shameful.

[@ameyadchule]

THIS STILL HURTS. RIP Rythym & Hues

[@saraturkis]

the academy, please get your shit together, this is so disrespectful

[@LuisMartinez-rw2lj]

If anyone hasn’t watch life after pi I implore you to do so. They explain that they had 45 seconds to talk but were cut off after 44.5 seconds. Whilst the cinematographer got 60 seconds and was not cut off

[@klumaverik]

He should have been given time to say what he needed to say. The Oscars lost a lot of face with that move.

[@Irudiar]

It's because Mike tried to bring to light that Rhythm & Hues, the studio that made Life of Pi's visual effects (turning a blue doll into a tiger and a pool into an ocean, just naming a few), filed for bankruptcy, but had his mike cut off and the music override him. You have no idea how many VFX artists are so frustrated and pissed off at this. Now R&H is being auctioned off, and a company in Korea will more than likely get R&H.

[@WeldonWen]

WTF Oscar, let them keep going. God...

[@calebjackson3895]

Do you want Mysterio? Because that's how you get Mysterio!

[@SantiYounger]

genius comment!

[@reichenreich2224]

In all due respect, Life of Pi paid more attention to details and its visual effect was a main component which critically enhanced the film. I love The Hobbit too, but I still think that its an award well-deserved for Life of Pi.

[@epacsenur575]

WATCH 'LIFE AFTER PIE'

[@miguelibarrafotograma]

i agree... by the way i just did.

[@pierce8878]

Absolutely disgraceful, this team deserved more praise and not to be interrupted.

[@EvanMonroe]

YMS brought me here.

[@KumiesCummies]

same bruv

[@stonkorocko1162]

Me 2 Was shocked at how jackass-y cutting them off was.

[@forgottenpotato9868]

Trying to find that YMS video but can't remember which one it was? Do you know what the title of the video was?

[@Kerm88]

Forgotten Potato did you find it?

[@forgottenpotato9868]

@@Kerm88 nope

[@RodrigoSantos-gq4ev]

Samuel L. Jackson, i will never see you the same way again.

[@hankfistgun7340]

Honestly the same thing happened to me. This happened, what, 3 years ago now? And I've had this really negative association attached to him ever since. I was rewatching The Incredibles the other night, lol, and whenever his character appeared it was there in the pit of my stomach; I just don't know how I'm supposed to tune that out. I am trying to tell myself that he was just anxious not to piss off the organisers of the ceremony, but meh, it's hard to do that when you start thinking about how privileged he and his fellow actors are, and how NOT privileged the VFX workers are, despite working together in the same industry. *Edit:* Actually, screw that what I said about him being anxious. Just noticed the bit at 0:15 where he's saying "Is that really something that you want to say?" with genuine surprise. He sincerely could not give a shit about the visual effects that have benefited his career so much, and even seems to suggest that actors as a whole should not care about them. Cunt.

[@veldin25]

It's a bit dummy

[@markjt.1371]

Scott Criswell I disagree there wasn’t any timing and they both seemed genuinely confused on what the other was going to do

[@jarg8]

Hank Fistgun Um? Can you not see this is a comedic bit? It's bad but the scripting is so heavy that you have to be quite dense to miss it. They're actors but you can see how rehearsed it is.

[@CheeseQueef]

Pulp Fiction should make up for 1 shitedly written bit that he most likely had no hand in writing. You don't need to be this dramatic, "I just can't see him the same wayyy" Christ. Bring up Snakes on a Plane if we're talking about bad writing and Samuel L Jackson, but this? Come on.

[@TheBreezus]

Wow that was so disrespectful.

[@JawkneeTango]

People who complain about visual effects these days being worse than they were 20 years ago (with the exception being Jurassic Park) are complete idiots. Movies now look so much better than they did in the past. And what's with Samuel L Jackson skipping forward??? rude much.

[@TheHannahcast]

He wasn't skipping forward, it was part of the joke.

[@ryancols]

Johnny Tran What an idiot, movies look worse now than even 5 years ago

[@user-ej5mr9th1i]

CGI has gone from bad in the 90s (some good cases though) to extremely good in the late 2000's/early 2010's. Now it is on a downward slope. CGI is getting worse. The visual effects are often really lazy and obvious nowadays. Please compare Black Panther to Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar. The older films far outclass Black Panther's CGI. Notably Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean is exceptionally well done. CGI is being outsourced to too many studios, often in other countries, who are all trying to undercut eachother meaning that in the end the VFX studios do not have enough time or money to do a stellar job anymore. That is why CGI today often looks worse than in the past. Here is an interesting article: www.engadget.com/2018/02/24/black-panther-vfx-models/

[@user-ej5mr9th1i]

Anshul Kaushik Yeah obviously some films today look way better, but there is no excuse for Black Panther.

[@micahcook2408]

G and the irony because we literally outsource everything for a cheaper buck in this country and then believe Presidential Candidates when they’ll “create jobs”. It’s all bullshit. Had willing citizens in your country to do jobs they enjoyed but cut back once they demanded better pay wages and safer work environments... like what the fuck. And then Hollywood on top of that claims to be all woke... come on.

[@q-q__b4175]

Sure, let Joaquin Phoenix talk about cow cream for 20 minutes, but when someone is talking on the behalf of hundreds of people and millions of collective man hours cut him off after a minute. Stuff like this is the reason the Oscars is quickly becoming irrelevant.

[@-Aidro-]

Cow milk is not less valuable. And that is not all JP did speak about. Moreso I don't remember any Oscar recipient having twenty odd minutes.

[@_kaleido]

The way they treated the VFX team was horrible but nothing’s wrong with bringing attention to the cruelty of the dairy industry either.

[@Cruznick06]

I remember seeing this for the few minutes I actually was watching the Oscars. It seriously pissed me off and still does. I knew Rhythm and Hues was in the hole but I didn't know they were bankrupt until looking it up shortly after. They deserved a moment of thanks yet the Oscars had to cut it out. Had they not played the damned Jaws music it probably would have wasted less time too.

[@bluedeskfan2754]

If that's how they get treated as Oscar winners, you can imagine how well Hollywood treats them the rest of the time.

[@randomguy3766]

0:16 so lemme get this straight, you are making fun and not giving respects to people who made you look untoubale super heroes in movies? So you are making fun of the people who made you look good and made you who you are?

[@nothing.lasts.forever]

This was a great Sarcasm , they showed how the visual effect teams are treated every year in the Oscar.. bdw how Mark and Chris are laughing , adorable

[@gravitymusic]

One of the most disgusting moments ever

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Life of Pi (2012): beautiful, emotional, intense story of faith and friendship. Life of Pi is a beautiful, emotionally resonant tale of survival and triumph against the odds, with themes of faith, friendship and perseverance.

[@drex5160]

This is why we ended up with She Hulk CGI😭

[@MichalFridrich]

I love censorship!

[@wantsomecoffe]

what was with that shark music at the end??

[@Koichi-Kun]

Oran but he talked less than other Oscar winners

[@meethindocha1824]

@Oran that guy was exposing Hollywood's mistreatment of visual artist's

[@cdwwg]

I love how people are talking about them being cut off. Folks, they're playing the fucking Jaws song. They could not have given any sort of a bigger "fuck you" to genuine people who're trying to ask for some recognition. 10 years later, the fact that the Oscars is continuing says a fucking lot about people's priorities. Without these guys, the Oscars wouldn't even be a thing. The Avengers wouldn't be chilling playing skits. Every actor there should've stood up and denounced the absolute lunacy being demonstrated towards their coworkers. Fuck their PR.

[@samlewis3555]

At least RDJ tried to hype them up and show them respect, but the Academy majorly fucked them over.

[@mpharaoh]

"I urge you all to remember that the Oscars is bullshit"

[@WordsUnwritten13]

why didn't they let RDJ do the introduction? why did they cut him off, what it seemed like he was about to say seemed pretty relevant and respectful.

[@theedit9028]

This is beyond unhumanity .

[@KayteaCat217]

Glad this movie won.

[@IloveDAGAMEZ]

people opinions on here.. I'd like to know how much you all actually know about VFX, so much bad stab, take out all the VFX and you have nothing in these films go look at some raw film footage with VFX then make a opinion on it, this is disrespectful to the companies...

[@AngeloSantelliMusic]

Man how disrespectful that was to the VFX team to cut him off, big scumbags. Guess that kind of attitude is why pro film is losing money hand over fist. 🤔

[@julianlee6058]

DISCUSTING NEVER WATCHING THE OSCARS AGAIN.

[@CJODell12]

God damn it, Academy! Why did you have to cut them off? >:(

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

As a boy, Pi looks for meaning/comfort in many religions, ultimately embracing different aspects of several of them. His faith is tested many times over the course of the movie, but he holds tight to it. Pi and Richard Parker develop a relationship that sustains both of them, unusual as it might be. Pi survives against the strongest possible odds, facing down vicious storms, hungry animals and self-doubt. His faith sustains him through much of what he faces; he's also determined, hardworking and resourceful, and he cares deeply about his fellow creatures. His father encourages Pi to think critically and question the way things are: "I would rather have you believe in something I disagree with than accept all things."

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

For the film, Rhythm & Hues with Moving Picture Company a few other studios developed some truly phenomenal animation and visual effects, which won them the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

[@jwelch5742]

Life of Pi has great visual effects.

[@GrammerPancreas]

A-aaand this studio just got shut down after being treated like shit again.

[@gilbertgotfried]

MPC is what got shut down. This company was rhythm and hues. Unless the same people were working in both because that's a possibility.

[@trevorriches136]

11 years later and they’re still doing stunts like this at the Oscars…

[@brijh16]

This was a shitty thing to do.

[@gilbertgotfried]

I forgave the fact that the Oscars were held in a garage. I even forgave Seth MacFarlane's presence with the help of my trusty mute button. This shit, though. This is a travesty. Those guys only made the movie worth watching. They didn't deserve that.

[@seekprateek8]

Academy at its best. Such equality.

[@Bishnoie0029]

Rest in power irfan ✊🏾

[@Uptheroyals80]

I don’t care what anyone says that film was AMAZING

[@scrappy2082]

thanks YMS for showing us this

[@reverseshin]

That was awful that they would play music over them, when they were trying to expose the VFX Industry and also the beginning when they cut the guy off who was trying to give the VFX team some love.

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Now Academy Award winning director Ang Lee has made a breathtaking, mesmerizing and totally astonishing movie of the book. He emphasizes the role of faith in the heart of a young man who loses everything only to gain even more in a harrowing adventure at sea.

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Life of Pi is an immersion into the world of imagination: one so powerful, so deeply transformational, that it stands as a cinematic monument to the power of storytelling. Navigating Yann Martel's beloved novel with David Magee's script as guiding star, director Ang Lee proves himself a virtuoso of the versatile in a world so rich and so real that only the miracle of 3D in the hands of a master could put it all into proper perspective. At journey's end, audiences are left to ponder an adventure so life-affirming and a reality so true that they would never dare doubt Dorothy ever left Kansas.

[@SkydivingGoat]

And Ang Lee takes all the credit and doesn't even mention the vfx team in his award speech. Real nice...

[@_jackcarmichael]

I just had a guy who worked at that studio who did life of pi come in today and talk about that exact thing. He basically said studios bleed money every month they aren’t working on something and life of Pi basically could have went to a cheaper studio and risk it not being as good and used their cheapness as a leverage to make the studio use its staff to work over time without pay. It’s petty fucked up ….. VFX even tho I love practical effects more you have to hand it to them they work their asses off for shit pay

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Ang Lee has fashioned the only visual successor to the 3-D artistry of Avatar, amazing us with a scenes of a dazzling school of flying fish, the marvels of luminous jellyfish, the leap of a humpback whale, and ocean water as a source of beauty and terror. In addition, Lee's use of digital technology is magical, especially in the many different scenes involving Richard Parker.

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Strong themes of the power of faith, friendship, perseverance and the ability to let go. The idea that faith involves thinking and questioning, rather than blind acceptance, is put forward.

[@jhop4life]

Have you seen Life Of Pi? The film clearly deserved it, maybe you feel Prometheus or The Hobbit had better effects but don't say they just gave it to Life Of Pi.

[@jhop4life]

They only cut them off because they were beginning to talk about their company going out of business.

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Yann Martel's Life of Pi is about faith as a survival tool and a source of courage and persistence.

[@chasedynamite9625]

Great idea getting the avengers cast to present the award

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Life of Pi (2012): A visually stunning and powerful drama that teaches us much about faith.

[@Coolygirl031]

Hardly anybody watches the Oscars anymore. They couldn't even get a host last time lol

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this visual masterpiece from Oscar winner Ang Lee, based on the best-selling novel. After a cataclysmic shipwreck, young Pi Patel finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with only one survivor: a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Bound by the need to survive, the two are cast on an epic journey that must be seen to be believed.

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

Life of Pi is an exhilarating drama about the mysteries which light up our lives and have no rhyme or reason on their own; the faith that enables us to make a leap into the dark; the teachings of animals; the fierce and tranquil sides of nature; and the powerful instinct we all have for survival. This spiritually alluring film can bring you to a transformed appreciation for the baffling, curious and inexplicable dimensions of life and the world around you.

[@sourabhmongra8472]

Irrfan Khan, he was one of the finest, inspirational artist ever. one of the finest actor of our industry and a human being too. Ww e have lost a lot today. Rip #IrrfanKhan you will be missed...❣️🇮🇳

[@rjharikumar6555]

As much as I respect Irrfan Khan, this is the wrong place to be talking about him. This video is about the callousness of Hollywood towards VFX artists, not about Irrfan Khan.

[@swarnxxx]

Like seeker

[@dusty_artichoke]

I think VFX artitsts in Hollywood should form Unions and have bigger legal power to negotiate better conditions for their work.

[@aaronchang7689]

1:52 Ang Lee whistling 😂

[@sashahawkins]

Agreed but knew it wasn't going to be a contender this time. Life of Pi's work was brilliant

[@rodrigomelo4700]

I think it should have been: 1. "The Avengers" 2. "The Dark Knight Rises" 3. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" 4. "Life of Pi"*(WINNER) 5. "Prometheus"

[@marvildegayoaquino1597]

A 3D adaptation of a supposedly "unfilmable" book, Ang Lee's Life of Pi achieves the near impossible: it's an astonishing technical achievement that's also emotionally rewarding.

[@JackNolan_]

My man Bill does not deserve that😤the oscars played him dirty!!!😤😤

[@ZoeAlleyne]

How unfortunate. I am aware that sometimes unions can be corrupt, lazy and bloated . . . but that applies to many good ideas when they are practiced poorly. When used correctly unions are there to bring balance to the force, so to speak. Sometimes it seems in the US people are so scared still of anything tinted with socialism or communism they miss out on positive things . . .

[@claudioburgosgonzalez2844]

MY TOP 5: 1. LIFE OF PI 2. THE AVENGERS 3. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 4. PROMETHEUS 5. SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

[@kapoorvarun909]

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT.... OSCARS? PLEASE DON'T CUT OFF AGAIN... RIDICULOUS

[@bhimprabhagandhi]

Injustice to VFX artists. Real heroes behind Big movies. No wonder, people don't care about the Oscars.

[@ankmachine]

If you are working in Vfx field u might know making things look real, when they already exist, is more challenging than making fictional characters. And it was not just animal, almost everything, except for boy and boat (and in some scene even boy and boat too) were CG. Work on Hobbit was equally good its just life of pi was more challenging.

[@bernd_the_almighty]

prizes should be given for something new in the field of CGI the Hobbit is basically a remake of LOTR and in Life of PI, they got incredibly real animals, and awesome backgrounds

[@FurryEskimo]

What is the like/dislike ratio on this video?

[@ZaneKun33]

3.6k likes and 3k dislikes

[@AmitChandraVerma]

Shame on the Academy, they did them dirty