The phrase "achieve realism" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or action that is realistic and achievable. For example, "We must work together to achieve realism in our budgeting."
But usually the effect undermines efforts to achieve realism.
According to the production company New Regency, The Revenant faced unprecedented difficulties to achieve realism.
To help achieve realism, Ketchum added a large switch with a sign that warned "Danger — Do Not Touch".
The need to achieve realism in the novel is so important that the infusion of actual experience becomes addictive: a cultivation of historical event and biography with painstaking exactitude, without which it feels like cheating.
The development of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) involves a large number of challenges such as the modeling of cognitive and affective functions in order to achieve realism and believability in this type of intelligent agents.
I've always been fascinated with how to achieve realism in film, and I wanted to make a film about family in a way that hadn't been done before.
The Fierlingers retain the detailed descriptions of Tulip's bowel movements and sex life that troubled many readers 50 years ago, but which are essential elements in achieving realism and avoiding sentimental anthropomorphism.
Though he regretted calling "The Executioner's Song" a true-life novel, that is essentially what it is, a work of literature made out of the lives of actual people, and its imaginatively achieved realism is why many readers have felt that it's the best thing he ever did.
It's like with painting, once we achieved realism as far as it could go (and still be interesting) we started playing with form and application.
A move toward ensemble acting was perhaps the logical continuation of efforts to achieve scenic realism.
Most of her pieces require more than 100 coats of paint to achieve their realism.
