Academy Bake-off List Announced
2009-01-06“Australia”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight”
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army”
“Iron Man”
“Journey to the Center of the Earth”
“The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”
My money is on CCBB, it is by far the most painstaking and meticulous VFX work done to date. Think iron/metal is hard to raytrace? Try human skin, eyeballs, and believable emotional performances by a synthetic character. I would be very surprised if anything beat CCBB this year.