Cloverfield
Cloverfield's viral marketing campaign helped make it a found-footage staple, but it wouldn't have had the same impact without the head of the Statue of Liberty screeching down a New York City street. In the final film, the scene was reworked to give Lady Liberty's noggin some more detail. "We reworked the shot, rebuilt the head, changed a lot of things about it, made it much more dynamic, and we also knew that [director] Matt [Reeves] wanted to focus on the head for quite a long time," said Michael Ellis, one of the film's visual effects supervisors.
Boardwalk Empire
The best CGI is so realistic that audiences can't tell that it's there. Some of the best television—such as this scene in Boardwalk Empire—has been cobbled together from a green screen and an incredible VFX team. The team in question here was Brainstorm Digital, who called the show their "most complex job to date," in which they had to "treat it like a feature film."