21st Visual Effects Society Awards
2023 visual effects awards ceremony for 2022 works
The 21st Visual Effects Society Awards is an awards ceremony presented by the Visual Effects Society to recognize the best in visual effects in film, television and other media in 2022. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2023,[ 1] and the ceremony took place on February 15, 2023.[ 2] Avatar: The Way of Water received a record number of nominations with fourteen,[ 3] surpassing the number of previous nominations for film (Avatar ) and television (The Mandalorian ).[ 4] The society introduced a new "Emerging Technology Award" this year.[ 1] [ 2]
Nominees
Honorary Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award:
VES Award for Creative Excellence
Film
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
Avatar: The Way of Water – Richard Baneham , Walter Garcia, Joe Letteri , Eric Saindon , J. D. Schwalm
The Batman – Dan Lemmon , Bryan Searing, Russell Earl , Anders Langlands , Dominic Tuohy
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Christian Manz , Olly Young, Benjamin Loch, Stephane Naze, Alistair Williams
Jurassic World Dominion – David Vickery , Ann Podlozny, ance Rubinchik, Dan Snape, Paul Corbould
Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Paul Molles, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson, Scott Fisher
Thirteen Lives – Jason Billington , Thomas Horton, Denis Baudin, Michael Harrison, Brian Cox
Death on the Nile – George Murphy , Claudia Dehmel, Mathieu Raynault, Jonathan Bowen, David Watkins
The Fabelmans – Pablo Helman , Jennifer Mizener, Cernogorods Aleksei, Jeff Kalmus, Mark Hawker
The Gray Man – Swen Gillberg , Viet Luu, Bryan Grill , Cliff Welsh, Michael Meinardus
The Pale Blue Eye – Jake Braver, Catherine Farrell, Tim Van Horn, Scott Pritchard, Jeremy Hays
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody – Paul Norris , Tim Field, Don Libby, Andrew Simmonds
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Aaron Weintraub, Jeffrey Schaper, Cameron Carson, Emma Gorbey
The Bad Guys – Pierre Perifel, Damon Ross, Matt Baer, JP Sans
Mad God – Chris Morley, Phil Tippett , Ken Rogerson, Tom Gibbons
The Sea Beast – Joshua Beveridge, Christian Hejnal, Stirling Duguid, Spencer Lueders
Strange World – Steve Goldberg, Laurie Au, Mark Hammel, Mehrdad Isvandi
Turning Red – Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins, Danielle Feinberg, Dave Hale
Avatar: The Way of Water : Kiri – Anneka Fris, Rebecca Louise Leybourne, Guillaume Francois, Jung-Rock Hwang
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio : Pinocchio – Oliver Beale, Richard Pickersgill, Brian Leif Hansen, Kim Slate
Avatar: The Way of Water : The Reef – Jessica Cowley, Joe W. Churchill, Justin Stockton, Alex Nowotny
Avatar: The Way of Water : Metkayina Village – Ryan Arcus, Lisa Hardisty, Paul Harris, TaeHyoung David Kim
Jurassic World Dominion : Biosyn Valley – Steve Ellis, Steve Hardy, Thomas Dohlen, John Seru
Slumberland : The Wondrous Cuban Hotel Dream – Daniël Dimitri Veder, Marc Austin, Pavan Rajesh Uppu, Casey Gorton
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio : In the Stomach of a Sea Monster – Warren Lawtey, Anjum Sakharkar, Javier Gonzalez Alonso, Quinn Carvalho
Lightyear : T'Kani Prime Forest – Lenora Acidera, Amy Allen, Alyssa Minko, Jose L. Ramos Serrano
The Sea Beast : The Hunting Ship – Yohan Bang, Enoch Ihde, Denil George Chundangal, John Wallace
Strange World : The Windy Jungle – Ki Jong Hong, Ryan Smith, Jesse Erickson, Benjamin Fiske
Wendell & Wild : The Scream Fair – Tom Proost, Nicholas Blake, Colin Babcock, Matthew Paul Albertus Cross
Avatar: The Way of Water : Water Simulations – Jonathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicolas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature
Outstanding Compositing and Lighting in a Feature
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, Kiem Ching Ong, Jinguang Huang
Lightyear – Alexis Angelidis, Chris Chapman, Jung-Hyun Kim, Keith Klohn
The Sea Beast – Spencer Lueders, Dmitriy Kolesnik, Brian D. Casper, Joe Eckroat
Strange World – Deborah Carlson, Scott Townsend, Stuart Griese, Yasser Hamed
Avatar: The Way of Water : Water Integration – Sam Cole, Francois Sugny, Florian Schroeder, Jean Matthews
Avatar: The Way of Water : Landing Rockets Forest Destruction – Miguel Santana Da Silva, Hongfei Geng, Jonathan Moulin, Maria Corcho
The Batman : Rainy Freeway Chase – Beck Veitch, Stephen Tong, Eva Snyder, Rachel E. Herbert
Top Gun: Maverick – Saul Davide Galbiati, Jean-Freceric Veilleux, Felix B. Lafontaine, Cynthia Rodriguez del Castillo
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project
Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project
Avatar: The Way of Water – Richard Baneham , Dan Cox, Eric Reynolds, A.J Briones
ABBA Voyage – Pär M. Ekberg, John Galloway, Paolo Acri, Jose Burgos
The Batman : Rain Soaked Car Chase – Dennis Yoo, Michael J. Hall, Jason Desjarlais, Ben Bigiel
Prehistoric Planet – Daniel Fotheringham, Krzysztof Szczepanski, Wei-Chaun Hsu, Claire Hill
Avatar: The Way of Water : The Sea Dragon – Sam Sharplin, Stephan Skorepa, Ian Baker, Guillaume Francois
Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal or Animated Project
Avatar: The Way of Water : Current Machine and Wave Pool – J. D. Schwalm , Richie Schwalm, Nick Rand, Robert Spurlock
Television
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power : "Udûn " – Jason Smith, Ron Ames, Nigel Sumner, Tom Proctor, Dean Clarke
The Boys : "Payback" – Stephan Fleet, Shalena Oxley-Butler, Tristan Zerafa, Anthony Paterson, Hudson Kenny
House of the Dragon : "The Black Queen " – Angus Bickerton, Nikeah Forde, Sven Martin, Michael Bell, Michael Dawson
Prehistoric Planet : "Ice Worlds" – Lindsay McFarlane, Fay Hancocks, Elliot Newman, Kristin Hall
Stranger Things 4 : "The Piggyback" – Jabbar Raisani, Terron Pratt, Niklas Jacobson, Justin Mitchell, Richard E. Perry
Five Days at Memorial : "Day Two" – Eric Durst, Danny McNair, Matt Whelan, Goran Pavles, John MacGillivray
The Old Man : "Episode III" – Erik Henry, Matt Robken, Jamie Klein, Sylvain Théroux, J.D. Streett
See : "I See You" – Chris Wright, Parker Chehak, Tristan Zerafa, Oscar Perea, Tony Kenny
Severance : "Good News About Hell" – Vadim Turchin, Nicole Melius, David Piombino, David Rouxel
Vikings: Valhalla : "The Bridge" – Ben Mossman, Melanie Callaghan, Matt Schofield, Chris Cooper, Paul Byrne
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode or Real-Time Project
Frito-Lay "Push It" – Tom Raynor, Sophie Harrison, Ben Cronin, Martino Madeddu
B&Q "Flip" – Patrick Krafft, Holly Treacy, Alex Snookes
Ladbrokes "Rocky" – Greg Spencer, Alex Fitzgerald, Mickey O'Donoghue, Adame Boutrif
Minions: The Rise of Gru – Gerome Viavant, Giles de Lusignan, Benjamin Le Ster
Virgin Media "Highland Rider" – Amir Bazzazi, George Reid, Sebastian Caldwell, Alex Kulikov
The Umbrella Academy : Pogo – Aidan Martin, Hannah Dockerty, Olivier Beierlein, Miae Kang
Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power : "Adar ": Númenor City – Dan Wheaton, Nico Delbecq, Dan LeTarte, Julien Gauthier
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power : "Udûn " Water and Magma – Rick Hankins, Aron Bonar, Branko Grujcic, Laurent Kermel
Outstanding Compositing and Lighting in an Episode
Outstanding Compositing and Lighting in a Commercial
Love, Death and Robots : Night of the Mini Dead – Tim Emeis, José Maximiano, Renaud Tissandié, Nacere Guerouaf
Ladbrokes "Rocky" – Greg Spencer, Theajo Dharan, Georgina Ford, Jonathan Westley
Cartier "Tank" – Stephane Pivron, Mathias Barday, Valentin Lesueur, Eric Lemains
Samsung "Playtime is Over" – Danueb Canameras, Guillaume Dadaglio, Sébastien Podsiadlo, Christophe Plouvier
Samsung "The Spider and the Window" – Marta Carbonell Amela, Stefan Susemihl, Lonni Wong, Jiyoung Lee
Other categories
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
The Last of Us Part I – Erick Pangilinan, Evan Wells , Eben Cook, Mary Jane Whiting
God of War: Ragnarok – Christopher Lloyd, Carrie Watts, James Adkins, Kevin Huynh
Gotham Knights – Jay Evans, Bryan Theberge, Mathieu Houle, Alexandre Bélanger
Supermassive Games "The Quarry " – Aruna Inversin, Paul Pianezza, Kevin Williams, Kimberly Cheifer
The Callisto Protocol – Glen Schofield, Steve Papoutsis, Chris Stone, Demetrius Leal
ABBA Voyage – Ben Morris, Edward Randolph, Stephen Aplin, Ian Comley
Avengers: Quantum Encounter – Alan Woods, Bernice Howes, Scott Sohan, Jason Fox
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind – Christopher Smith, Meghan Short, William George, Jon Alexander
Jumanji: The Adventure – Martin Cutbill, Liam Thompson, Baptiste Roy, Marco Parenzi
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – Rob Blue, Patrick Kearney, Khatsho Orfali, Gabe Sabourin, Daniel Joseph
Stranger Things: The Experience – Javier Roca, Antoine Sitruk, Cale Jacox, Julien Forest, Camille Michaud
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project
Emerging Technology Award
A Calling. From the Desert to the Sea – Mario Bertsch, Max Pollmann, Lukas Löffler, Till Sander-Titgemeyer
Boom – Roman Augier, Charles Di Cicco, Gabriel Augerai, Laurie Pereira De Figueiredo
Macula – Hady Abou Ghazale, Lothaire Rialhe, Marta Rodriguez-N Nava, Jules Machicot
Maronii – Maxime Guitet, Dimitri Allonneau, Lucas Plata, Ngoc Mai Nguyen
Avatar: The Way of Water : Water Toolset – Alexy Dmitrievich Stomakhin, Steve Lesser, Sven Joel Wretborn, Douglas McHale
Avatar: The Way of Water : Depth Comp – Dejan Momcilovic, Tobias B. Schmidt, Benny Edlund, Joshua Hardgrave
Avatar: The Way of Water : Facial System – Byungkuk Choi, Stephen Cullingford, Stuart Adcock, Marco Revelant
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio : 3D Printed Metal Armature – Richard Pickersgill, Glen Southern, Peter Saunders, Brian Leif Hansen
Turning Red : Profile Mover and CurveNets – Kurt Fleischer, Fernando de Goes, Bill Sheffler
References
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