Refresh for latest: The Visual Effects Society is handing out its 2024 VES Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline is posting the winners as they are revealed. Check out the running list below.
Disney’s The Creator and Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse come into the 22nd annual ceremony with a leading seven nominations apiece, and neither wasted any time in hoarding the hardware. Spidey won the night’s first film prize, for Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature, and The Creator followed with the category’s Photoreal Feature prize for the film’s floating village.
The Creator was the night’s first four-time winner, also taking the trophies for Composting and Lighting, Model and Effects Simulations. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has added third wins tonight, for Effects Simulations and Animated Character in an Animated Feature.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the only other multiple winner from the silver screen so far, winning the Animated Character and Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project prizes. Awards-season juggernaut Oppenheimer won Special Effects in a Photoreal Project.
The Creator also is up for Best Visual Effects at next month’s 96th Academy Awards, vying against Godzilla Minus One, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Napoleon. The latter two also are nominated for top VES film awards. Across the Spider-Verse will compete for the Animated Feature Oscar.
The VES Awards and Movie Academy haven’t exactly seen camera eye-to-eye during the past decade, with only five of the Visual Effects Society’s marquee winners going on to score Oscars since 2013. They did agree on Avatar: The Way of Water and Dune in the past two years but differed in the previous three. Blade Runner 2049 (2107), The Jungle Book (2016) and Gravity (2013) also turned both tricks in the past 10 years.
HBO’s The Last of Us came into the ceremony with a TV-leading half-dozen nominations and has won three. Disney+’s The Mandalorian and HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty also scooped trophies tonight, butno other program won more than one.
Avatar and Titanic VFX producer and three-time VES Award winner Joyce Cox received the VES’ Lifetime Achievement Award tonight.
Accepting the award, she referred to her career as “a circuitous path of happy accidents” and talked about how “girls like me weren’t mentored for a career — especially not a a career in film.” She ended with, “I’m very proud to have been chosen for this — thank you.”
A VES Fellow, Cox also has worked on such live-action blockbusters as Disney’s The Lion King and The Jungle Book, along with Superman Returns, X2, The Great Gatsby and Men in Black 3. VES also recognized her dedication and vision in working to create a unified visual effects budgeting system, through her work on the Curó VFX budgeting tool.
Later on, William Shatner will be beaming in for the 2024 VES Award for Creative Excellence.
Comic and SNL alum Jay Pharoah is hosting the show after serving as a presenter last year. “Ironically, the strikes ended just in time for awards season,” he quipped early on.
Here are the 22nd annual VES Awards winners revealed so far:
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty; Season 2; BEAT LA
Raymond McIntyre Jr., Victor DiMichina, Javier Menéndez Platas, Damien Stantina
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Spot
Christopher Mangnall, Craig Feifarek, Humberto Rosa, Nideep Varghese
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
The Last of Us; Endure & Survive; Bloater
Gino Acevedo, Max Telfer, Dennis You, Fabio Leporelli
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3; Rocket
Nathan McConnel, Andrea De Martis, Antony Magdalinidis, Rachel Williams
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
The Creator
Ludovic Ramisandraina, Raul Essig, Mathieu Chardonnet, Lewis Taylor
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari, Naoki Kato, Nicola Finizio
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
The Mandalorian; Season 3; Lake Monster Attack Water
Travis Harkleroad, Florian Witzel, Rick Hankins, Aron Bonar
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE
The Creator; Bar
Phil Prates, Min Kim, Nisarg Suthar, Toshiko Miura
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A COMMERCIAL
Coca-Cola; Masterpiece
Ryan Knowles, Greg Mckneally, Taran Spear, Jordan Dunstall
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN AN EPISODE
The Last of Us; Endure and Survive; Infected Horde Battle
Matthew Lumb, Ben Roberts, Ben Campbell, Quentin Hema
OUTSTANDING SPECIAL (PRACTICAL) EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL PROJECT
Oppenheimer
Scott Fisher, James Rollins, Mario Vanillo
OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT
The Creator; Nomad
Oliver Kane, Mat Monro, Florence Green, Serban Ungureanu
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A STUDENT PROJECT
Silhouette
Alexis Lafuente, Antoni Nicolaï, Chloé Stricher, Elliot Dreuille
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD
The Flash; Volumetric Capture
Stephan Trojansky, Thomas Ganshorn, Oliver Pilarski, Lukas Lepicovsky
OUTSTANDING VIRTUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A CG PROJECT
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Joanna Davison
Cheyana Wilkinson
Michael Cozens
Jason Desjarlais
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SPECIAL VENUE PROJECT
(Tie)
Postcard From Earth
Aruna Inversin, Eric Wilson, Corey Turner, William George
Rembrandt Immersive Artwork
Andrew McNamara, Sebastian Read, Andrew Kinnear, Sam Matthews
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A REAL-TIME PROJECT
Alan Wake 2
Janne Pulkkinen, Johannes Richter, Daniel Kończyk, Damian Olechowski
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A COMMERCIAL
Coca-Cola; Masterpiece
Ryan Knowles, Antonia Vlasto, Gregory McKneally, Dan Yargici
OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
The Creator; Floating Village
John Seru, Guy Williams, Vincent Techer, Timothée Maron
OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Taehyun Park, YJ Lee, Pepe Orozco, Kelly Han
OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
The Last of Us: Post-Outbreak Boston
Melaina Mace, Adrien Lambert, Juan Carlos Barquet, Christopher Anciaume
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