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Video description: Being that we are a little more than a week away from the Academy Awards, this show is about one of the awards categories: visual effects. We talk with Russell Earl of ILM, who was co-visual effects supervisor on the new Star Trek movie, and with Daniel Terdiman of CNET, who covers the category for CNET News.

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