The Visual Effects Society (VES) this evening announced the recipients of the 7th Annual VES Awards in a black-tie event at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The annual event recognizes outstanding visual effects in over a dozen categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Filmmakers, producers and guests joined more than 1,100 professionals from the visual effects industry for the gala.
The big winners were THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, winning four awards, and WALL-E, sweeping all three animation categories.
Recipients of the 7th Annual VES Awards:
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONEric Barba, Edson Williams, Nathan McGuinness, Lisa Beroud
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture
CHANGELINGMichael Owens, Geoffrey Hancock, Jinnie Pak, Dennis Hoffman
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Motion Picture
WALL-EAndrew Stanton, Jim Morris, Lindsey Collins, Nigel Hardwidge
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special
JOHN ADAMS -- "Join or Die"Steve Kullback, Erik Henry, Robert Stromberg, Jeff Goldman
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Season Four -- BSG Space BattleGary Hutzel, Michael Gibson, Doug Drexler, Kyle Toucher
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program
FRINGE -- Episode 101 -- "Pilot"Kevin Blank, Jay Worth, Andrew Orloff, Barbara Genicoff
Best Single Visual Effect of the Year
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON -- Benjamin’s SecretEric Barba, Lisa Beroud, Steve Preeg, Jonathan Litt
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
Bacardi -- SUNDANCEAlex Thiesen, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Jay Barton, Zsolt Krajcsik
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
U2 3D -- Selected ShotsPeter Anderson, Steve Schklair, David Franks, Jeremy Nicolaides
Outstanding Real Time Visuals in a Video Game
CRYSIS WARHEADZoltan Pocza, Gabor Mogyorosi, Tamas Schlagl
Outstanding Pre-Rendered Visuals in a Video Game
WORLD OF WARCRAFT: WRATH OF THE LICH KING -- Intro CinematicJeff Chamberlain, Phillip Hillenbrand
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON -- Benjamin ButtonSteve Preeg, Matthias Wittmann, Tom St. Amand, David McLean
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture
WALL-E -- WALL-E and Eve Truck SequenceBen Burtt, Victor Navone, Austin Lee, Jay Shuster
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program or Commercial
BRAINS DANCEJames Sindle, Jesus Parra, Josh Fourtwells
Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
WALL-E -- Effects in WALL-EJason Johnston, Keith Klohn, Enrique Vila, Bill Watral
Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture
CHANGELING -- 1928 Downtown L.A.Romain Bayle, Abel Milanes , Allan Lee, Debora Dunphy
Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Broadcast Program or Commercial
DOCTOR WHO -- Series 4 -- Silence in the LibrarySimon Wickers, Charlie Bennett, Tim Barter, Arianna Lago
Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture
THE DARK KNIGHT -- Garbage Truck Crash Models and MiniaturesIan Hunter, Forest Fischer, Scott Beverly, Adam Gelbart
Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Broadcast Program or Commercial
New Balance -- ANTHEMIan Hunter, Jon Warren, Matt Burlingame, Raymond Moore
Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture
THE DARK KNIGHT -- IMAX Gotham City ScapesPeter Bebb, Stuart Farley, Philippe Leprince, Andrew Lockley
Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial
JOHN ADAMS -- Join or Die -- Episode 1 -- The Boston HarborPaul Graff, Robert Stromberg, Adam Watkins
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON -- Benjamin Comes TogetherJanelle Croshaw, Paul Lambert, Sonja Burchard, Sarahjane Javelo
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program or Commercial
JOHN ADAMS -- "Join or Die" -- Episode 1 -- The Boston HarborPaul Graff, Joshua LaCross, Matt Collorafice
Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture
THE DARK KNIGHT-- OverallChris Corbould, Peter Notley, Ian Lowe
Outstanding Effects in a Student Project"Plastic" -- Transformation SequenceSandy Widyanata, Courtney Wise
In addition, director David Fincher (THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON) presented producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award, while ILM’s Dennis Muren presented Phil Tippett with the Georges Melies Award.
For more information on the program and photos, visit www.visualeffectssociety.com.
