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'Cats' Visual FX Artist Fires Back After Being Dragged By James Corden And Rebel Wilson At The Oscars

Taylor Sakellis

Updated August 23, 2021

A hurt Cats VFX artist is speaking out after the movie was roasted at this year's Academy Awards.

In case you haven't heard, "Cats" was kinda of a total flop.

Which was so disappointing to theater kids everywhere including MOI!!!!!

A lot of the critiques about the film came from the poor quality CGI and visual effects.

In fact, conspiracies about rushed VFX work began floating around Twitter.

So naturally, when "Cats" cast members James Cordon and Rebel Wilson walked on stage to present Best Visual Effects at the Oscars, jokes were going to be made.

Some of their lines included: "As members of the motion picture Cats, no one more than us understands the importance of good visual effects."

While the audience and many at home laughed, "Cat's" VFX artist Yves McCrae did not.

"Hey guys I haven't watched all of the Oscars but I assume these two were really classy and thanked me for working 80 hour weeks right up until I was laid off and the studio closed, right?" he wrote on Twitter.

He wasn't the only VFX artist that spoke up. In fact, the whole VFX Society did!

Their statement read: "Last night, in presenting the Academy Award for Outstanding Visual Effects, the producers chose to make visual effects the punchline, and suggested that bad VFX were to blame for the poor performance of the movie CATS. The best visual effects in the world will not compensate for a story told badly. On a night that is all about honoring the work of talented artists, it is immensely disappointing that The Academy made visual effects the butt of a joke. It demeaned the global community of expert VFX practitioners doing outstanding, challenging and visually stunning work to achieve the filmmakers’ vision. Our artists, technicians and innovators deserve respect for their remarkable contributions to filmed entertainment, and should not be presented as the all-too-convenient scapegoat in service for a laugh."