VES presents Awards recognizing VFX excellence
February 5, 2015

VES presents Awards recognizing VFX excellence

LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (VES) held its 13th Annual VES Awards last night, recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues. Comedian Patton Oswalt served as host of the event, which took place at the Beverly Hilton.

The Awards celebrate VFX talent in 23 categories. Big Hero 6 was the big winner, 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 also 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 as follows:

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