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Special effects and the green screen are the smartphones of Hollywood. Many directors simply cannot do without them. At the beginning of the year, many directors complained about the excessive use of special effects, so a number of prominent Hollywood directors of photography called on the Academy to introduce a new Oscar category that would distinguish between films that were shot using traditional methods and those that use digital effects. Special effects have become so sophisticated that we no longer even realize that much of the movies are actually the work of a computer and that practically nothing is real except for the actors. We've rounded up a number of movies that rely heavily on digital effects. Check out how these movies look without special effects.