



The VES Award for Creative Excellence was presented to visual effects supervisor/director of photography Rob Legato, ASC. Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for 19th Annual VES Awards THE MANDALORIAN Garners Most Nominations and Leads the Broadcast Field SOUL is Top Animated Contender PROJECT POWER and THE WITCHES Lead Feature Film Nominations THE MANDALORIAN garners the most nominations and leads the broadcast field with 13 nominations.
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HBO’s Lovecraft Country also has two victories on the TV side.ĭisney/Pixar’s animated Soul, which topped the film side with five noms overall coming into the night, swept all its categories. Last year, Disney’s The Lion King won the VES honor but Universal’s 1917 took the Oscar.ĭisney+/Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian came into tonight leading all TV shows and films with 13 noms, including for the Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode, which is considered the society’s marquee TV honor the Star Wars spinoff won here twice last year. 'The Lion King' was the big winner at the Visual Effects Society awards, winning three trophies including the top prize for outstanding VFX in a photoreal feature. Since the VES Awards’ launch in 2002, the main film winner has gone on to take the Visual Effects Oscar in 10 of the last 18 years. The Society has introduced a new category recognizing Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal Project.
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There was very little of that this year with movie theaters all but shuttered worldwide, with only Christopher Nolan’s tentpole in the mix. Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, announced several significant additions to its 18th Annual VES Awards, which will be held on Januat the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Midnight Sky win was fitting in a year when four of the five nominees were streaming movies in a category that specializes in big-screen, big-effects films. Midnight Sky, which is also nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar this year, won two awards tonight including for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature, prevailing in a category that included fellow Oscar nominee Tenet from Warner Bros along with fellow Netflix pics Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Project Power and HBO Max’s The Witches. Jackson, speaking remotely from his New Zealand outpost, traced his career arc that included everything from Tolkien to Kong, referring to himself as “the guy who tries to make the lives of VFX artists as difficult as he can.” Peter Jackson To Receive Visual Effects Society Lifetime Achievement Award The Visual Effects Society today announced the nominees for its 19th annual VES Awards, which recognize VFX artistry in 25 categories spanning film, TV, animation, commercials and video games.
