Brave and Life of Pi were the top film winners and Game Of Thrones the top TV winner at the Visual Effects Society Awards this week, with each earning four trophies according to Deadline. Pi director Ang Lee was also honored with the Visionary Award, saying “This is not visual effects, it’s visual art”. The full list of winners follows, but check out Deadline for comments about crowd reactions, presenter jokes, and winner speeches from the ceremony.
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
Life of Pi; Donald R. Elliott, Susan MacLeod, Guillaume Rocheron, Bill Westenhofer
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Brave; Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian, Bill Wise
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program
Game of Thrones: Volar Morghulis; Rainer Gombos, Steve Kullback, Sven Martin, Juri Stanossek
Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture
The Avengers: Helicarrier; Rene Garcia, Bruce Holcomb, Polly Ing Aaron Wilson
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem; Heather Drummons, Joel Friesch, Troy Griffin, Chris Hummel
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
ZombiU; Dominique Boidin, Léon Bérelle, Rémi Kozyra, Maxime Luère
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Matt Aitken, Victor Huang, Christian Rivers, R. Christopher White
Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
Game of Thrones: Pyke; Rene Borst, Thilo Ewers, Adam Figielski, Jonas Stuckenbrock
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Brave: The Forest; Tim Best, Steve Pilcher; Inigo Quilez, Andrew Whittock
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
The Avengers: Midtown Manhattan; Richard Bluff, Barry Williams, David Meny, Andy Proctor
Lifetime Achievement Award
Richard Edlund
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
Guinness: Cloud; Tom Bussell, Neil Davies
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Brave; Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Michael K. O’Brien, Bill Watral
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Life of Pi: Storm of God; Harry Mukhopadhyay, David Stopford, Mark Williams, Derek Wolfe
Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
Game of Thrones: Training the Dragons; Irfan Celik, Florian Friedmann, Ingo Schachner. Chris Stenner
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Life of Pi: Richard Parker; Erik De Boer, Sean Comer, Betsy Asher Hall, Kai-Hua Lan
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Brave: Merida; Travis Hathaway, Olivier Soares, Peter Sumanaseni, Brian Tindall
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project
Natalis; Daniel Brkovic, David Kirchner, Jan-Marcel Kuehn, Tom Ferstl
Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game
Call of Duty: Black Ops II; Jason Blundell, Barry Whitney, Colin Whitney
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
Nike: Biomorph; Rafael Colon; Aladino Debert; David Liu; Nicola Wiseman
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program
Game of Thrones: White Walker Army, Falk Boje, Esther Engel, Alexey Kuchinsky, Klaus Wuchta
Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial
Chevy 2012 Silverado; Dominik Bauch, Nicholas Kim, Benjamin Walsh
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture
Life of Pi: Storm of God; Ryan Clarke, Jose Fernandez, Sean Oharas, Hamish Schumacher
Visionary Award
Ang Lee
