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The Visual Effects Society (VES) held its 24th Annual VES Awards at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, and it was a night of Fire (and Ash). “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” which won seven awards in total, including the top prize of Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. Additional wins for “Avatar: Fire and Ash” included Outstanding Character in a Photoreal Feature for Varang (Oona Chaplin), Outstanding CG Cinematography, and the Emerging Technology Award, given to the Kora Fire Toolset.
Meanwhile, in the animation categories, “KPop Demon Hunters” led the night with three awards, including the top prize of Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature, and Outstanding Character in an Animated Feature for Rumi (Arden Cho). There are some bright spots for “Sinners,” which won for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects, and “Zootopia 2,” which won for Outstanding Environment in an Animated Feature, but “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and “KPop Demon Hunters” look pretty locked into their respective categories here — and going into the Oscars.
However, the VES awards not only distinguish between animated and photoreal (or live-action) features. The organization of over 5,500 VFX professionals also gives out awards for excellent work in environments, character design, and effect simulations in television, commercials, and other media projects. “Ghost of Yotei” won for a real-time project (as video games mostly are), while “Andor,” “The Last of Us,” “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” and “It: Welcome to Derry” all won awards for different outstanding aspects of their visual effects in specific episodes of television.
Film producer Jerry Bruckheimer was honored with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by his longtime collaborator, “F1: The Movie” director Joseph Kosinski. Wētā Workshop co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Sir Richard Taylor received this year’s VES Visionary Award, presented by Adam Savage.
Read the full list of winners below.
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’©20th Century Studios/Courtesy Everett CollectionOUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
Richard Baneham
Peter Litvack
Eric Saindon
Nicky Muir
Steve Ingram
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
“Sinners”
Michael Ralla
James Alexander
Nick Marshall
Espen Nordahl
Donnie Dean
OUTSTANDING ANIMATION IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Joshua Beveridge
Jacky Priddle
Benjamin Hendricks
Clara Chan
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE
“Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” — “The Big Freeze”
Russell Dodgson
Tracey Gibbons
François Dumoulin
Gavin McKenzie
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE
“The Residence” — “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Seth Hill
Tesa Kubicek
John Nelson
Gabriel Vargas
OUTSTANDING VISUAL ARTS IN A REAL-TIME PROJECT
“Ghost of Yōtei”
Jason Connell
Matt Vainio
Joanna Wang
Jasmin Patry
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A COMMERCIAL
BMW; “Heart of Joy | Meet Okto the Octopus”
Tom Raynor
Helen Tang
Jack Harris
Alex Kulikov
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SPECIAL VENUE PROJECT
“The Wizard of Oz” at Sphere
Ben Grossmann
Tamara Watts Kent
Dr. Irfan Essa
Matt Dougan
Glenn Derry
OUTSTANDING CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” — Varang: Leader of the Ash Clan
Stephen Clee
Stuart Adcock
Keven Norris
Joseph Kim
OUTSTANDING CHARACTER IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
“KPop Demon Hunters” — Rumi
Sophia (Seung Hee) Lee
Andrea Matamoros
Marc Souliere
Joshua Beveridge
OUTSTANDING CHARACTER IN AN EPISODIC, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
“IT: Welcome to Derry” — “The Thing in the Dark;” The Pickle Monster
Philip Harris-Genois
Pierric Danjou
Chloé Ostiguy
Jonathan Bourdua
OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” — Bridgehead Industrial City
Gianluca Pizzaia
Steve Bevins
Dziga Kaiser
Zsolt Máté
OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
“Zootopia 2” — Marsh Market
Limei Z. Hshieh
Alexander Nicholas Whang
Joshua Fry
Ryan DeYoung
OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN AN EPISODIC, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
“Andor” — “Welcome to the Rebellion;” The Senate District
John O’Connell
Falk Boje
Hasan Ilhan
Kevin George
OUTSTANDING CG CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
Steve Deane
A.J. Briones
Zachary Brake
Andrew Moffett
OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” —The Windtraders’ Gondola
Michael Smale
Sam Sharplin
Joe W. Churchill
Jacqi Dillon
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
“Avatar: Fire and Ash;” Simulating Pandora
Nicholas James Illingworth
Sarah C. Farmer
James Robinson
Ryan Bowden
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Filippo Maccari
Nikolaos Finizio
Daniel La Chapelle
Srdjan Milosevic
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
“Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” — “The Big Freeze”
Edward Ferrysienanda
Kevin Christensen
Guy Schuleman
Kevin Tarpinian
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE
“F1: The Movie;” Modern Race and POV Footage
Hugo Gauvreau
Chris Davies
Raushan Raj
Amaury Rospars
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN AN EPISODE
“The Last of Us” — “Through the Valley;” A Storm of Ice, Fire and Flesh
Tobias Wiesner
Mark Julien
Owen Longstaff
Brendan Naylor
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A COMMERCIAL
BMW; “Heart of Joy | Meet Okto the Octopus”
Alex Kulikov
Jack Harris
Adam Chabane
Nicola Borsari
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL (PRACTICAL) EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL PROJECT
“Andor” — “Who Are You?”
Luke Murphy
Dean Ford
Jody Eltham
Darrell Guyon
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD
“Avatar: Fire and Ash;” Kora Fire Toolset
Alexey Dmitrievich Stomakhin
John Edholm
Murali Ramachari
Aleksandr Isakov
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A STUDENT PROJECT
“Azimuth”
Thomas Teisseire
Cassandre Cinier
Martin Bluy
Mathis Giraudeau
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