Feb 6, 2013

"Dauntless", "Life of Pie" and "Game of Thrones" win big at the VES Awards

The winners of the 11th Annual VES Awards were announced yesterday in Los Angeles. The two most honored films were Brave and Life of Pi, each with four awards, while Game of Thrones was the most-honored TV project, also with four awards.

Presented by the Visual Effects Society, the award recognizes outstanding visual effects work across a broad spectrum of the entertainment industry including film, animation, television, commercials and video games. In addition to the awards below, director Ang Lee was honored with the VES Visionary Award (presented by Dennis Muren) and ILM veteran Richard Edlund with the Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by Harrison Ford).

The following is the complete list of winners of The 11th Annual VES Awards:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion PictureLife of Pi Donald R. Elliott, Susan Macleod, Guillaume Rocheron, Bill Westenhofer

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion PictureThe Impossible Felix Bergés,Sandra Hermida,Pau Costa Moeller

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion PictureBrave Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian, Bill Wise

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast ProgramGame of Thrones: Volar Morghulis Rainer Gombos, Steve Kullback, Sven Martin, Juri Stanossek

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast ProgramBoardwalk Empire: Episode 308 John Bair, Parker Chehak, Paul Graff, Lesley Robson-Foster

Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video GameCall of Duty: Black Ops II Jason Blundell, Barry Whitney, Colin Whitney

Outstanding Visual Effects in a CommercialNike: Biomorph Rafael Colon, Aladino Debert, David Liu, Nicola Wiseman

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue ProjectDespicable Me: Minion Mayhem Heather Drummons, Joel Friesch, Brooke Breton, Chris Bailey

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion PictureLife of Pi: Richard Parker Erik De Boer, Sean Comer, Betsy Asher Hall, Kai-Hua Lan

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion PictureBrave: Merida Travis Hathaway, Olivier Soares, Peter Sumanaseni, Brian Tindall

Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast ProgramGame of Thrones: Training the Dragons Irfan Celik, Florian Friedmann, Ingo Schachner, Chris Stenner

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion PictureThe Avengers: Midtown Manhattan Richard Bluff, Barry Williams, David Meny, Andy Proctor

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion PictureBrave: The Forest Tim Best, Steve Pilcher, Inigo Quilez, Andrew Whittock

Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial or Broadcast ProgramGame of Thrones: Pyke Rene Borst, Thilo Ewers, Adam Figielski, Jonas Stuckenbrock

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion PictureThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Matt Aitken, Victor Huang, Christian Rivers, R. Christopher White

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Commercial or Broadcast ProgramZombiU Dominique Boidin, Léon Bérelle, Rémi Kozyra, Maxime Luère

Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion PictureThe Avengers: Helicarrier Rene Garcia, Bruce Holcomb, Polly Ing, Aaron Wilson

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion PictureLife of Pi: Storm of God Harry Mukhopadhyay, David Stopford, Mark Williams, Derek Wolfe

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion PictureBrave Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Michael K. O'Brien, Bill Watral

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast ProgramGuinness: Cloud Tom Bussell, Neil Davies

Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion PictureLife of Pi: Storm of God Ryan Clarke, Jose Fernandez, Sean Oharas, Hamish Schumacher

Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast ProgramGame of Thrones, Episode 210: White Walker Army Falk Boje, Esther Engel, Alexey Kuchinsky, Klaus Wuchta

Outstanding Compositing in a CommercialChevy 2012 Silverado Dominik Bauch, Nicholas Kim, Benjamin Walsh

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student ProjectNatalis Daniel Brkovic, David Kirchner, Jan-Marcel Kuehn, Tom Ferstl