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Visual Effects Society Goes Big Hero Six, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

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Visual Effects Society Announces Winners of the 13th Annual VES Awards

Big Hero 6 is the Big Hero with 5 Awards; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Tops the Feature Film Category; Games of Thrones and SSE Lead in Broadcast and Commercial Wins

Zoe Saldana, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Clark Gregg and Patton Oswalt Join  verflow Crowd of VFX Artists, Innovators and Industry VIPs

 Los Angeles (February 4, 2015) – Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, held the 13th Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues.  Comedian Patton Oswalt served as host to the more than 1000 guests gathered at the Beverly Hilton to celebrate VFX talent in 23 awards categories.  Big Hero 6 was the big winner of the evening garnering five awards.  The teams from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (feature film), Games 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 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

 

 

 

About the Visual Effects Society

 

The Visual Effects Society is a professional honorary society dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences and applications of visual effects and to upholding the highest standards and procedures for the visual effects profession. It is the entertainment industry’s only official organization representing the extended global community of visual effects practitioners, including supervisors, artists, producers, technology developers, educators and studio executives.  VES’ almost 3,000 members in 30+ countries worldwide contribute to all areas of entertainment – film, television, commercials, animation, music videos, games and new media.   To learn more about the VES, visit www.visualeffectssociety.com.

 

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