Colette won an Oscar for best documentary short subject film.
Colette won an Oscar for best documentary short subject film.
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Respawn’s documentary Oscar for Colette is a win for VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Virtual reality earned a great public relations coup from the Oscars. Respawn Entertainment, a division of Electronic Arts, and Oculus Studios won an Academy Award on Sunday for Best Documentary Short for the film Colette.

The win is a momentous occasion for the video game industry. It should also draw more prestige and attention to relatively small medium of virtual reality, as Respawn’s team created the documentary as part of the VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.