VES Announces Nominations for 15th VES Awards

The Visual Effects Society has announced the nominees for the 15th VES Awards. The nominees were determined by VES members who participated in the nomination judging process.

The leading nomination earner for feature films was "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" with six nominations. Next up with five nominations was "The Jungle Book" and "Doctor Strange".

Earning two nominations were "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Deepwater Horizon". Earning a single nomination this year were "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", "Allied", "Jason Bourne", "Silence", "Sully", "Warcraft", "Deadpool:, "Star Trek Beyond", "Alice Through the Looking Glass", "Independence Day: Resurgence" and "X-Men Apocalypse".

Of the ten films invited to the Academy bake-off this year, "Arrival", "Passengers", "Captain America: Civil War" and "The BFG" did not earn any VES nominations, while "Kubo and the Two Strings" earned six nominations in animated feature categories.

Listed below are all of the live-action feature film categories. To see all of the nominees, visit The Hollywood Reporter'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
DOCTOR STRANGE
Stephane Ceretti, Susan Pickett, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, Paul Corbould

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Christian Manz, Olly Young, Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, David Watkins

MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Frazer Churchill, Hal Couzens, Andrew Lockley, Jelmer Boskma, Hayley Williams

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
John Knoll, Erin Dusseault, Hal Hickel, Nigel Sumner, Neil Corbould

THE JUNGLE BOOK
Robert Legato, Joyce Cox, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez, JD Schwalm


Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
ALLIED
Kevin Baillie, Sandra Scott, Brennan Doyle, Viktor Muller, Richard Van Den Bergh

DEEPWATER HORIZON
Craig Hammack, Petra Holtorf-Stratton, Jason Snell, John Galloway, Burt Dalton

JASON BOURNE
Charlie Noble, Dan Barrow, Julian Gnass, Huw Evans, Steve Warner

SILENCE
Pablo Helman, Brian Barlettani, Ivan Busquets, Juan Garcia, R. Bruce Steinheimer

SULLY
Michael Owens, Tyler Kehl, Mark Curtis, Bryan Litson, Steven Riley


Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM; Niffler
Laurent Laban, Gabriel Beauvais-Tremblay, Luc Girard, Romain Rico

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY; Grand Moff Tarkin
Sven Jensen, Jee Young Park, Steve Walton, Cyrus Jam

THE JUNGLE BOOK; King Louie
Paul Story, Dennis Yoo, Jack Tema, Andrei Coval

THE JUNGLE BOOK; Shere Khan
Benjamin Jones, Julio Del Rio Hernandez, Jake Harrell, James Hood

WARCRAFT; Durotan
Sunny Wei, Brian Cantwell, Brian Paik, Jee Young Park


Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
DEADPOOL; Freeway Assault
Seth Hill, Jedediah Smith, Laurent Taillefer, Marc-Antoine Paquin

DOCTOR STRANGE; London
Brendan Seals, Raphael A. Pimentel, Andrew Zink, Gregory Ng

DOCTOR STRANGE; New York City
Adam Watkins, Martijn van Herk, Tim Belsher, Jon Mitchell

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY; Scarif Complex
Enrico Damm, Kevin George, Olivier Vernay-Kim, Yanick Dusseault


Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project
DOCTOR STRANGE; New York Mirror Dimension
Landis Fields, Mathew Cowie, Frederic Medioni, Faraz Hameed

GAME OF THRONES; Battle of the Bastards
Patrick Tiberius Gehlen, Michelle Blok, Christopher Baird, Drew Wood-Davies

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY; Space Battle
John Levin, Euisung Lee, Steve Ellis, Barry Howell

THE JUNGLE BOOK
Bill Pope, Robert Legato, Gary Roberts, John Brennan


Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project
DEEPWATER HORIZON; Deepwater Horizon Rig
Kelvin Lau, Jean Bolte, Kevin Sprout, Kim Vongbunyong

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY; Princess Leia
Paul Giacoppo, Gareth Jensen, Todd Vaziri, James Tooley

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY; Star Destroyer
Jay Machado, Marko Chulev, Akira Orikasa, Steven Knipping

STAR TREK BEYOND; Enterprise
Daniel Nicholson, Rhys Salcombe, Chris Elmer, Andreas Maaninka


Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS; Rust
Klaus Seitschek, Joseph Pepper, Jacob Clark, Cosku Turhan

DOCTOR STRANGE; Hong Kong Reverse Destruction
Florian Witzel, Georges Nakhle, Azhul Mohamed, David Kirchner

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY; Jedha Destruction
Miguel Perez Senent, Matt Puchala, Ciaran Moloney, Luca Mignardi

THE JUNGLE BOOK; Nature Effects
Oliver Winwood, Fabian Nowak, David Schneider, Ludovic Ramisandraina


Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
DOCTOR STRANGE; New York City
Matthew Lane, Jose Fernandez, Ziad Shureih, Amy Shepard

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE; Under The Mothership
Mathew Giampa, Adrian Sutherland, Daniel Lee, Ed Wilkie

THE JUNGLE BOOK
Christoph Salzmann, Masaki Mitchell, Matthew Adams, Max Stummer

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE; Quicksilver Rescue
Jess Burnheim, Alana Newell, Andy Peel, Matthew Shaw