The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on January 4 the 10 films still in the running in the Visual Effects category for this year’s Academy Awards®. Plenty of fantasy and science fiction films are on the list, as usual:

• “Captain America: The First Avenger”
• “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
• “Hugo”
• “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
• “Real Steel”
• “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
• “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
• “The Tree of Life”
• “X-Men: First Class”

The Academy’s visual effects branch will watch excerpts from these movies and choose the five finalists. They will be revealed along with the other Oscar nominees on January 24.