"The Jungle Book" Wins Big at the 15th VES Awards

On February 7, "The Jungle Book" won five top awards at the 15th VES Awards, held by The Visual Effects Society.

"The Jungle Book" won all five of the categories in which the film was nominated. The other big winner was "Deepwater Horizon", which won two awards, including Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects. "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" which earned the most nominations, did not take home any awards. See the full list of nominees here.

Here are the winners of the live-action feature film categories. To see all the winners, read The Hollywood Reporter's coverage of the event.


Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Robert Legato, Joyce Cox, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez, JD Schwalm

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
DEEPWATER HORIZON
Craig Hammack, Petra Holtorf-Stratton, Jason Snell, John Galloway, Burt Dalton

Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature
THE JUNGLE BOOK; King Louie
Paul Story, Dennis Yoo, Jack Tema, Andrei Coval

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
DOCTOR STRANGE; New York City
Adam Watkins, Martijn van Herk, Tim Belsher, Jon Mitchell

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project
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

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
THE JUNGLE BOOK; Nature Effects
Oliver Winwood, Fabian Nowak, David Schneider, Ludovic Ramisandraina

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Christoph Salzmann, Masaki Mitchell, Matthew Adams, Max Stummer