VES Announces Nominations for 14th VES Awards

The Visual Effects Society has announced the nominees for the 14th VES Awards. The nominees were determined by VES members who participated in the nomination judging process.

The leading nomination earner was "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" with seven nominations. Next up with four nominations was "San Andreas" and "The Revenant". Earning three was "Mad Max: Fury Road", "The Walk" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron".

Two nominations went to "Everest", "Ant-Man", "Jurassic World" and "Tomorrowland".  Earning one nomination each was "Chappie", "Furious 7", "The Martian", "Bridge of Spies", "In the Heart of the Sea" and "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation".

Nine of the ten films invited to the Academy bake-off earned VES nominations, the exception was "Ex Machina" which did not earn any VES nominations. Films that were not invited to the bake-off that got VES Nominations are "San Andreas", "Everest", "Chappie", "Furious 7", "Bridge of Spies", "In the Heart of the Sea" and "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation".

Listed below are all of the live-action feature film categories. To see all of the nominees, visit Variety's coverage. The entire VES membership votes for the winners of the awards, which will be announced at a banquet on February 2, 2016.  To learn more about the Visual Effects Society, visit their web site.

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
--FURIOUS 7
Mike Wassel, Karen Murphy, Martin Hill, Kevin McIlwain, Dan Sudick
--MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Andrew Jackson, Holly Radcliffe, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams
--THE MARTIAN
Richard Stammers, Barrie Hemsley, Matt Sloan, Chris Lawrence, Steven Warner
--SAN ANDREAS
Colin Strause, Randall Starr, Bryan Grill, Nordin Rahhali, Brian Cox
--STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
Roger Guyett, Luke O'Byrne, Patrick Tubach, Paul Kavanagh, Chris Corbould

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
--BRIDGE OF SPIES
Sven Martin, Jennifer Meislohn, Charlie Noble, Sean Stranks, Gerd Nefzer
--EVEREST
Dadi Einarsson, Roma O-Connor, Matthias Bjarnasson, Glen Pratt, Richard Van Den Bergh
--IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
Jody Johnson, Leslie Lerman, Sean Stranks, Bryan Hirota, Mark Holt
--THE REVENANT
Rich McBride, Ivy Agregan, Jason Smith, Nicolas Chevallier, Cameron Waldbauer
--THE WALK
Kevin Baillie, Camille Cellucci, Viktor Muller, Sebastien Moreau

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
--ANT-MAN — The Microverse
Florian Witzel, Taylor Shaw, Alexis Hall, Heath Kraynak
--JURASSIC WORLD — Jungle Chase
Martyn Culpitt, Joao Sita, Yuta Shimizu, Michael Billette
--STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS — Falcon Chase/Graveyard
Yanick Dusseault, Mike Wood, Justin van der Lek, Quentin Marmier
--TOMORROWLAND — Tomorrowland Center
Barry Williams, Greg Kegel, Quentin Marmier, Thang Le
--THE WALK — World Trade Center
Jim Gibbs, Brian Flora, Laurent Taillefer, Pavel Kolar

Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature
--AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON — Hulk
Jakub Pistecky, Lana Lan, John Walker, Sean Comer
--CHAPPIE — Chappie
Earl Fast, Chris Harvey, Mark Wendell, Robert Bourgeault
--THE REVENANT — The Bear
Matt Shumway, Gaelle Morand, Karin Cooper, Leandro Estebecorena
--STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS — Maz
Joel Bodin, Arslan Elver, Ian Comley, Stephen Cullingford

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
--MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Lindsay Adams, Matthew Wynne, Chris Davies, Phil Outen
--THE REVENANT  — Bear Attack
Donny Rausch, Alan Travis, Charles Lai, TC Harrison
--SAN ANDREAS — Los Angeles Destruction
Sandro Blattner, Hamish Schumacher, Nicholas Kim, Mario Rokicki
--STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
Jay Cooper,  Marian Mavrovic, Jean Lapointe, Alex Prichard
--TOMORROWLAND
Francois Lambert,  Jean Lapointe, Peter Demarest, Conny Fauser

Outstanding Models in a Photoreal or Animated Project
--AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON — Hulkbuster
Howie Weed, Robert Marinic, Daniel Gonzalez, Myriam Catrin
--EVEREST — Mt. Everest
Matthias Bjarnasson,  Olafur Haraldsson, Kjartan Hardarson, Petur Arnorsson
--JURASSIC WORLD — Indominus Rex
Steve Jubinville, Martin Murphy, Aaron Grey, Kevin Reuter
--STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS — BB-8
Joshua Lee, Matthew Denton, Landis Fields, Cyrus Jam

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
--AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON — Hulk vs. Hulkbuster
Michael Balog, Jim Van Allen, Florent Andorra, Georg Kaltenbrunner
--MAD MAX: FURY ROAD — Toxic Storm
Dan Bethell, Clinton Downs, Chris Young
--SAN ANDREAS — Hoover Dam/San Francisco Tsunami
Joe Scarr, Lukas Lepicovsky, Yves D-Incau, Marcel Kern
--SAN ANDREAS — Los Angeles Destruction
Remy Torre,  Marc Horsfield, Niall Flinn, Victor Grant
--STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS — Starkiller Base
Rick Hankins, Dan Bornstein, John Doublestein, Gary Wu

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project
--ANT-MAN — Macro Action
James Baker, Alex Kahn, Thomas Luff, Rebecca Baehler
--MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION — Underwater Torus Chamber
Vincent Aupetit,  Margaux Durand-Rival, Christopher Anciaume, Robert Elswit
--STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS — Falcon Chase/Graveyard
Paul Kavanagh, Colin Benoit, Susumu Yukuhiro, Greg Salter
--THE WALK — Towers Walk
Shawn Hull, Suzanne Cipolletti, Laurent Taillefer, Dariusz Wolski