From the Visual Effects Society:Los Angeles, February 28, 2010 - The Visual Effects Society announced the winners of the 8th Annual VES Awards tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The annual event recognizes outstanding visual effects in more than twenty categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games.
Filmmakers, producers and guests joined more than a thousand attendees from the visual effects industry for the sold-out gala which honored James Cameron with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr. Ed Catmull with the Georges Méliès Award for Pioneering.
Avatar was the evening’s big winner taking home six awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture. The animated feature film Up was honored with three awards including Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture.
The 2010 VES Awards will premiere on Friday, March 5 at 10pm ET/PT on REELZCHANNEL.
And here are all of the winners of the live-action feature film categories. (To see all the nominees, click here.) Congratulations to all the winners!
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture
AVATAR
Richard Baneham, Joyce Cox, Joe Letteri, Eileen Moran
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Dan Barrow, Jonathan Fawkner, Chas Jarrett, David Vickery
Best Single Visual Effect of the Year
AVATAR- Neytiri Drinking
Thelvin Cabezas, Joyce Cox, Joe Letteri, Eileen Moran
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
AVATAR - Neytiri
Andrew R. Jones, Joe Letteri, Zoe Saldana, Jeff Unay
Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture
AVATAR - Pandora
Jean-Luc Azzis, Peter Baustaedter, Brenton Cottman, Yvonne Muinde
Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture
AVATAR - Samson/Home Tree / Floating Mountains / Ampsuit
Simon Cheung, Paul Jenness, John Stevenson-Galvin, Rainer Zoettl
Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture
AVATAR - Jungle / Biolume
Shadi Almassizadeh, Jessica Cowley, Dan Cox, Ula Rademeyer, Eric Saindon
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture
DISTRICT 9
Janeen Elliott, Simon Hughes, Hamish Schumacher, Shervin Shogian
For more information on the VES Awards, sponsorship and tickets, please visit www.visualeffectssociety.com.
Was there ever any doubt? ;)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the talented teams and individuals who worked toward this goal!
Although, I've got to say, no matter what film it is, I'm not a fan when a single film basically cleans house at these awards. It's more interesting to have more variety among the winners. Oh well. It's well deserved.
Nice to see "District 9" and "Sherlock Holmes" get an award. Both were very good films.
Now we get to wait for *next years* awards! :D Whoo!