Star Wars: The Force Awakens led the field of winners of the Visual Effects Society (VES) last night with four wins, including the top category – Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. The film went into the night with the most nominations, seven. The Revenant was right behind with three wins, including Animated Performance for The Bear. Mad Max: Fury Road came away with a single win, for the Toxic Storm.
9 of the last 14 winners of the top award at the VES have gone on to win the Visual Effects Oscar but there’s an even bigger statistic here. Since 1970, no film has won the Visual Effects Oscar without being nominated for Best Picture against a film in that category that is. That doesn’t bode well for Star Wars and looks good for The Revenant (and to a lesser extent, Mad Max). However, The Revenant wasn’t even nominated for the top award here yet it won in every category that it did receive one. But, this is and will be a year of stat-breaking and history making in many categories so a win at the Academy Awards for any of these three is entirely still in play.
On the Animated Feature side, The Good Dinosaur bested Inside Out in almost every category. Inside Out is heavily favored to win the Oscar, where The Good Dinosaur isn’t even nominated. On Television, Game of Thrones yet again dominated the wins with four; Vikings won one.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to director Ridley Scott (The Martian) and the Visionary Award to Syd Mead (Tron, Blade Runner).
Here is the complete list of winners:
FEATURE FILM
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project
Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Falcon Chase / Graveyard
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Falcon Chase / Graveyard
Outstanding Models in a Photoreal or Animated Project
Star Wars: The Force Awakens; BB-8
Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature
The Revenant; The Bear
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
The Revenant; Bear Attack
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
The Revenant
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
Mad Max: Fury Road; Toxic Storm
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature
The Good Dinosaur
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature
The Good Dinosaur
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature
The Good Dinosaur; The Farm
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature
The Good Dinosaur
Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature
Inside Out; Joy
TELEVISON
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
Game of Thrones; “The Dance of Dragons”
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project
Game of Thrones; “Hardhome”
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode
Game of Thrones; “Hardhome”
Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project
Game of Thrones; “City of Volantis”
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
Vikings; “To the Gates”
COMMERCIAL OR OTHER MEDIA
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
SSE; Pier
Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project
SSE; Pier; Orangutan
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project
Citipati
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project
The Order: 1886
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
Fast and Furious: Supercharged
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Commercial
SSE; Pier
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