Up to now, there have been 13 “Star Trek” function movies, with a 14th film, “Part 31,” scheduled to debut on Paramount+ on January 24, 2025. The movies are, many Trekkies would agree, varied levels of fine and dangerous. Among the “Star Trek” movies are among the many greatest sci-fi films ever made, whereas others are handily the worst. Many agree that Nicholas Meyer’s 1982 movie “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” is the very best one, though J.J. Abrams’ 2009 “Star Trek” is the highest-grossing. The 4 movies based mostly on “Star Trek: The Subsequent Era” — that’s: “Generations,” “First Contact,” “Revolt,” and “Nemesis” — are all fairly middling, though many just like the Borg motion from “First Contact.” My private favorites are Robert Smart’s 1979 epic “Star Trek: The Movement Image,” for its cerebral grandiosity, and Meyer’s “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Nation” for its political bent.
The movies additionally fluctuate wildly in mere manufacturing high quality. “Movement Image” feels outsized and grand, whereas William Shatner’s “Star Trek V: The Closing Frontier” seems and feels low cost, with low-rent VFX and shoddy units. Among the “Star Trek” films boast Oscar-caliber craftsmanship. Others have gained Razzies.
However, maybe surprisingly, the high-profile movie franchise solely has one installment that has been nominated for any Academy Awards. Not that the “Star Trek” films had been ever anticipated to be honored within the Finest Image class, however absolutely no less than one movie was acknowledged for its sound, music, or VFX, proper? Between the 13 extant films, just one Oscar has ever been given, and it was to Barney Burman, Mindy Corridor, and Joel Harlow for his or her make-up results in Abrams’ “Star Trek” (2009).
Listed here are the Oscars that J.J. Abrams’ 2009 ‘Star Trek’ movie was nominated for
Abrams’ “Star Trek” was nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 2010. It gained for its make-up results, however was additionally nominated for its Sound Enhancing, Sound Mixing, and Particular Results. All of that is deserved, because the alien make-up seen in “Star Trek” was first-rate, and the movie’s many starship battles, to not point out the bizarro colossal damaging house wedgies, regarded and sounded superb. “Star Trek” gained its make-up Oscar over Paolo Sorrentino’s “Il Divo,” a biopic of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, and Jean-Marc Vallée’s “The Younger Victoria,” a biopic of Queen Victoria. I can say from expertise that style followers and sci-fi nuts all the time hope that the monster make-up and creature results will win Oscars over the biopics and old-age faces, and in 2010, they obtained their want.
“Star Trek” misplaced each of its sound Oscars to the eventual Finest Image winner “The Harm Locker,” a movie stuffed with battle and fight results. One can see — or maybe hear — why “The Harm Locker” gained its 5 Oscars.
“Star Trek” was nominated for Finest Visible Results alongside Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi movie “District 9,” however each had been doomed to lose to James Cameron’s “Avatar,” the most important film of all time. “Avatar” was famous principally for its cutting-edge, ultra-dazzling visible results, which included making nine-foot tall blue alien creatures look wholly plausible. Something that was nominated subsequent to “Avatar” was going to lose, so the nominated effects-makers – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton — had been seemingly simply blissful to be within the room.
And that is been it for “Star Trek.” The 2013 follow-up “Star Trek Into Darkness,” and the ultimate function “Star Trek Past” weren’t acknowledged by the Academy. “Star Trek” has stayed away from theaters ever since. Time will inform if one other “Star Trek” movie is ever made.