Visual Effects Society Announces Winners of the 13th Annual VES Awards

Thu 5th Feb 2015 | News

Last night, the Visual Effects Society (VES) held the 13th Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues.  Comedian Patton Oswalt served as host to the more than 1000 guests gathered at the Beverly Hilton to celebrate VFX talent in 23 awards categories.  Big Hero 6 was the big winner of the evening garnering five awards.  The teams from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (feature film), Game of Thrones (broadcast) and SSE (commercial) led the wins in their respective categories, taking home three awards each.

Zoe Saldana made a crowd-pleasing presentation to her Star Trek: Into Darkness director, award-winning writer-director-producer J.J. Abrams, recipient of the VES Visionary Award.  Awards presenters included Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Clark Gregg, How to Train Your Dragon 2 director Dean DeBlois, Alyssa Sutherland, Jamie Chung, Karine Vanasse and Scott Adsit.

Winners of the 13th Annual VES Awards are:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

 

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri
Ryan Stafford
Matt Kutcher
Dan Lemmon
Hannah Bianchini

 

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Birdman
Ara Khanikian
Ivy Agregan
Jake Braver
Isabelle Langlois

 

 

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

 

Big Hero 6
Don Hall
Chris Williams
Roy Conli
Zach Parrish

 

 

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program

 

Game of Thrones; The Children
Joe Bauer
Steve Kullback
Stuart Brisdon
Thomas Schelesny
Sven Martin

 

 

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program

 

American Horror Story; Freak Show; Edward Mordrake, Part 2
Jason Piccioni
Jason Spratt
Mike Kirylo
Justin Ball
Eric Roberts

 

 

Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game

 

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Yi-chao Sandy Lin-Chiang
Joseph Salud
Demetrius Leal
Dave Blizard

 

 

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial

 

SSE; Maya
Neil Davies
Alex Hammond
Jorge Montiel
Beth Vander

 

 

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project

 

Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquee de Remy
Tony Apodaca
Marianne McLean
Gilles Martin
Edwin Chang
Mark Mine

 

 

Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

 

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Caesar
Paul Story
Eteuati Tema
Andrea Merlo
Emiliano Padovani

 

 

Outstanding  Performance of an Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

 

Big Hero 6; Baymax
Colin Eckart
John Kahwaty
Zach Parrish
Zack Petroc

 

 

Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game

 

SSE; Maya
Jorge Montiel
Alex Hammond
Daniel Kmet
Philippe Moine

 

 

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

 

Interstellar; Tesseract
Tom Bracht
Graham Page
Thomas Døhlen
Kirsty Clark

 

 

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

 

Big Hero 6; Into the Portal
Ralf Habel
David Hutchins
Michael Kaschalk
Olun Riley

 

 

Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game

 

Game of Thrones; Braavos Establisher
Rene Borst
Christian Zilliken
Jan Burda
Steffen Metzner

 

 

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal/Live Action Motion Media Project

 

X-Men: Days of Future Past; Kitchen Scene
Austin Bonang
Casey Schatz
Dennis Jones
Newton Thomas Sigel

 

 

Outstanding Models in any Motion Media Project

 

Big Hero 6; City of San Fransokyo
Brett Achorn
Minh Duong
Scott Watanabe
Larry Wu

 

 

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

 

X-Men: Days of Future Past; Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen
Adam Paschke
Premamurti Paetsch
Sam Hancock
Timmy Lundin

 

 

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

 

Big Hero 6
Henrik Falt
David Hutchins
Michael Kaschalk
John Kosnik

 

 

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game

 

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Dominique Vidal
Isabelle Perin-Leduc
Sandrine Lurde
Alexandre Lerouge

 

 

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

 

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Christoph Salzmann
Florian Schroeder
Quentin Hema
Simone Riginelli

 

 

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program

 

Game of Thrones; The Watchers on the Wall
Dan Breckwoldt
Martin Furman
Sophie Marfleet
Eric Andrusyszyn

 

 

Outstanding Compositing in a in a Photoreal/Live Action Commercial

 

SSE
Neil Davies
Leonardo Costa
Gianluca DiMarco

 

 

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project

 

Wrapped
Roman Kaelin
Falko Paeper
Florian Wittmann
Paolo Tamburrino

 

 

Related links

www.visualeffectssociety.com

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