The Visual Effects Society presented the 19th Annual VES Awards on Tuesday night in a virtual ceremony, celebrating outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation worldwide in film, animation, television, commercials and video games, and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and artists who bring this work to life.
Disney-Pixar’s Soul swept the Animated Feature categories, taking the top category prize and four others, while George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky (and Disney+ Star Wars hit The Mandalorian took the top honors in the Photoreal Feature and Photoreal Episode categories.
As previously announced, the VES Award for Creative Excellence was bestowed on VFX supervisor, second unit director and director of photography Rob Legato, ASC (The Lion King, Avatar), and director-producer-screenwriter Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, King Kong, Mortal Engines) was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Winners below; see the list of this year’s worthy nominatees here.
The Midnight Sky
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature Soul | Pete Docter, Dana Murray, Michael Fong, Bill Watral
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature The Midnight Sky | Matt Kasmir, Greg Baxter, Chris Lawrence, Max Solomon, David Watkins
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode The Mandalorian “The Marshal” | Joe Bauer, Abbigail Keller, Hal Hickel, Richard Bluff, Roy Cancino
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial Walmart – Famous Visitors | Chris “Badger” Knight Lori Talley Yarin Mares Matt Fuller
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Mank | Wei Zheng, Peter Mavromates, Simon Carr, James Pastorius
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode The Crown “Gold Stick” | Ben Turner, Reece Ewing, Andrew Scrase, Jonathan Wood
Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature The One and Only Ivan, Ivan | Valentina Rosselli, Thomas Huizer, Andrea De Martis, William Bell
Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial Arm & Hammer – Once Upon a Time,Tuxedo Tom| Shiny Rajan, Silvia Bartoli, Matias Heker, Tiago Dias Mota
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Soul, Terry | Jonathan Hoffman, Jonathan Page, Peter Tieryas, Ron Zorman
Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode or Real-Time Project The Mandalorian “The Jedi”,The Child | John Rosengrant, Peter Clarke, Scott Patton, Hal Hickel
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature Mulan, Imperial City | Jeremy Fort, Matt Fitzgerald, Ben Walker, Adrian Vercoe
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Soul, You Seminar | Hosuk Chang, Sungyeon Joh, Peter Roe, Frank Tai
Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project The Mandalorian “The Believer”, Morak Jungle | Enrico Damm, Johanes Kurnia, Phi Tran, Tong Tran
Mandalorian
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature Project Power | Yin Lai Jimmy Leung, Jonathan Edward Lyddon-Towl, Pierpaolo Navarini, Michelle Lee
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Soul | Alexis Angelidis, Keith Daniel Klohn, Aimei Kutt, Melissa Tseng
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project Lovecraft Country “Strange Case”, Chrysalis | Federica Foresti, Johan Gabrielsson, Hugo Medda, Andreas Krieg
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project Soul | Matt Aspbury, Ian Megibben
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project Ghost of Tsushima | Jason Connell, Matt Vainio, Jasmin Patry, Joanna Wang
Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project The Midnight Sky, Aether | Michael Balthazart, Jonathan Opgenhaffen, John-Peter Li, Simon Aluze
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project Migrants | Antoine Dupriez, Hugo Caby, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Project Power | Russell Horth, Matthew Patience, Julien Rousseau
Outstanding Compositing in an Episode Lovecraft Country “Strange Case”, Chrysalis | Viktor Andersson, Linus Lindblom, Mattias Sandelius, Crawford Reilly
Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial Burberry – Singin’ in the Rain | Alex Lovejoy, Mithun Alex, David Filipe, Amresh Kumar
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project The Bourne Stuntacular | Salvador Zalvidea, Tracey Gibbons, George Allan, Matthías Bjarnason, Scott Smith
Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal or Animated Project Fear the Walking Dead “Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg” | Frank Iudica, Scott Roark, Daniel J. Yates
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