Ben Morris of “The Golden Compass” admitted to being surprised at the film's victory for Special Effects. They offered that “Golden Compass” might have won because “There was a lot of spectacle in the other films and there's a lot of delicate performance and intimacy in this film, and I think that stood out.”
Chief special effects supervisor Michael Fink echoed that thought, saying that amidst all the fantasy elements in the film, “The dialogue scenes meant everything to me.”
