Adelaide film team in mix as curtain rises on glitzy Academy Award ceremony
An Adelaide film team will be anxiously tracking the progress of top movie Sinners at Hollywood’s pinnacle Academy Awards ceremony on Monday.
Staff at Adelaide’s much-awarded studio Rising Sun Pictures will be closely watching the Academy Awards ceremony on Monday as the Hollywood elite gather to celebrate the best movies of the year.
The work of its own VFX supervisor Guido Wolter on the film Sinners has been nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 98th event.
Ryan Coogler’s supernatural thriller Sinners has won 16 nods and is the most-nominated film in Oscar history.
Wolter represented Rising Sun Pictures throughout the Academy Awards process sharing the nomination with Michael Ralla, James Alexander, Espen Nordahl, and Donnie Dean, working alongside Warner Bros. Discovery.
More than half the runtime of Sinners is visual effects shots, and it holds the record for the most VFX shots ever delivered for an IMAX film.
Wolter has said that on Sinners, RSP’s largest contribution was also the film’s most technically difficult trick: making Michael B. Jordan appear twice in the same frame as two fully distinct characters, the twins Smoke and Stack.
“This recognition belongs to the entire Rising Sun Pictures team, past and present. Sinners came together through shared trust, close collaboration, a genuine care for the story, and a deep commitment to craft. It’s an incredible privilege to see that collective work acknowledged,” Wolter said.
RSP was established in 1995 in Adelaide by its co-founders Tony Clark, Wayne Lewis and Gail Fuller, who named the business after the Rising Sun Inn, the site of the first board meeting in Kensington – one held over a Coopers Ale.
Its clients now include Disney, Marvel, Warner Bros, Netflix, Amazon, and MGM, and its Adelaide studio is now home to more than 240 crew.
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The studio has worked on more than 250 productions, from Harry Potter and X-Men, through to Gravity, Elvis, A Complete Unknown, and Mickey 17.
Now its collective eyes will be tuned to the 98th Academy Award ceremony that is happening on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles – the event live streamed on the ABC starting 10:30am on Monday, March 16.
RSP has received numerous awards over the years, including the 2020 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) ‘Award for Best Visual Effects or Animation’ for its work on The Eight Hundred.
The business won the Creative Industries award at the 57th Australian 2019 Export Awards, a plethora of Visual Effects Society (VES) and AEAF awards, accolades for its work on the Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen sequence in X-Men: Days of Future Past including both an Academy Award ® and BAFTA Award nomination, as well as honours for its work on the 2013 Academy-Award® winning Gravity.
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