From a trippy 1960s odyssey into the human body to Jeff Goldblum turning into a human fly, these sci-films all won Oscars and deserve to be watched again.
Everyone knows the Academy Awards have a bias against certain genres. Biopics, dramas, and epics are like catnip to voters, and the more tears a voter sheds, the more likely it is that they will vote for it. As a result, genres like horror and sci-fi rarely get recognized by the organization outside of technical categories like Visual Effects or Sound.
Fantastic Voyage One of the first Oscar-winning sci-fi films ever is perhaps the grooviest as well. Made in 1966 by journeyman director Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage stars Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch as scientists who decide to shrink down to the molecular level to save the life of a doctor who invented the procedure. Throw in a ticking timebomb and a Cold War saboteur subplot and you have a surprisingly suspenseful thriller.
Close Encounters is perhaps the best sci-film to capture the wonder of us contacting an alien life form. In her contemporary review of the film, Pauline Kael called it “a kid’s film in the best sense,” and she’s absolutely right; it’s filled with child-like glee at discovering the unknown. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, the film won only for Vilmos Zsigmond’s beautifully textured cinematography.
The Fly Come for the Oscar-winning makeup, stay for the profound metaphors about watching someone you care about slowly rot away before your eyes! In this remake of the classic 1959 Vincent Price movie The Fly, Jeff Goldblum stars as weirdo scientist Seth Brundle, who has just invented a device that can teleport an object from one pod to another. After testing it out on a few baboons, Seth tries it out himself, neglecting to notice a small housefly in the pod with him.
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