Gallery: When Will a Motion-Capture Actor Win an Oscar?
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*Andy Serkis uses a motion-capture suit to portray Caesar the chimp in the critically acclaimed* Rise of the Planet of the Apes*. Will his performance garner an Oscar nomination?*
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*For* Rise of the Planet of the Apes, *head-mounted cameras capture Andy Serkis' facial movements as Caesar. The emotive performance is convincingly rendered by animators into the digital skin of a chimpanzee.*
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*Andy Serkis got snubbed for an Oscar nomination when he played Gollum in 2001's* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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*Andy Serkis plays boozy sailor Captain Haddock in* The Adventures of Tintin *(and steals the show).*
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*Peter Jackson's 2005 remake* King Kong *featured Andy Serkis in a performance-capture portrayal of the fierce gorilla.*
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*Robert Zemeckis pioneered motion-capture animation in his 2004 Tom Hanks feature,* The Polar Express.
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*Ray Winstone played* Beowulf *opposite Angelina Jolie in Robert Zemeckis' 2007 motion-capture fantasy.*
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*2008's* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button *used motion capture to merge a little man's body with Brad Pitt's head.*
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*James Cameron's 2009 performance-capture blockbuster* Avatar *picked up nine Oscar nominations including Best Picture, but Academy voters snubbed all the actors including Zoe Saldana, pictured right, as Neytiri.*
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*For 2010 movie* Tron: Legacy, *Digital Domain grafted a CGI construction of a young Jeff Bridges' head onto the body of another actor to produce a hybrid character fueled by performance-capture technology.*
