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The crew responsible for the episode's visual effects, VFX supervisors Jay Worth, Robert Habros, and Andrew Orlaff, and Visual Effects Artist Eric Hance, succeeded in gaining a nomination for their work. "Earthling" was nominated in the "Visual effects in a broadcast series" category at the 8th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards, but lost to the fourth season finale of the science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica".