Honorary Awards

• Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall

• Phil Tippett
  Phil Tippett
  Phil Tippett is a movie director and an award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design and character animation.-Early career:...
  
  

Film

• The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
• Cloverfield
  Cloverfield
  Cloverfield is a 2008 American disaster-monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city...
  
  
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
  
  
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
  Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
  Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American supernatural superhero film based on the fictional Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy, starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair. The movie is directed by Guillermo del Toro and is a sequel to the 2004 film Hellboy, which del Toro also directed. Perlman...
  
  
• Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
  

• Changeling
  Changeling (film)
  Changeling is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Based on real-life events in 1928 Los Angeles, the film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman who is reunited with her missing son—only to realize he is an impostor. She confronts the city...
  
  
• Eagle Eye
• Nim's Island
  Nim's Island
  Nim's Island is a 2008 Australian adventure-fantasy film directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin and starring Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. The story is based on the book Nim's Island by Wendy Orr. A young girl, Nim, seeks help from the author of her favorite adventure...
  
  
• Synecdoche, New York
  Synecdoche, New York
  Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was Kaufman's directorial debut.The film premiered in competition at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2008...
  
  
• Valkyrie
  Valkyrie
  In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is one of a host of female figures who decides who dies in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle , the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin...
  
  

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
• Roadside Romeo
  Roadside Romeo
  Roadside Romeo is a 2008 computer animated musical comedy film written and directed by Jugal Hansraj and co-produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra of Yash Raj Films and Walt Disney Pictures...
  
  
• WALL-E
  WALL-E
  WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
  
  
• Waltz With Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
  
  

• Cloverfield
  Cloverfield
  Cloverfield is a 2008 American disaster-monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city...
  
  - Statue of Liberty Crash and Woolworth Tower Collapse
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
  
  - Benjamin’s Secret
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
  The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)
  The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 science fiction film, a remake of the 1951 film of the same name. The screenplay is based on the 1940 classic science fiction short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, and the 1951 screenplay adaptation by Edmund H...
  
  - Newborn Klaatu
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Valley Destruction
• Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
  

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
  
  - Benjamin Button
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
  Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
  Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American supernatural superhero film based on the fictional Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy, starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair. The movie is directed by Guillermo del Toro and is a sequel to the 2004 film Hellboy, which del Toro also directed. Perlman...
  
  - Elemental Sequence
• Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
  
• The Spiderwick Chronicles
  The Spiderwick Chronicles
  The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew...
  
  - Hogsqueal

• Bolt - Bolt
• Bolt - Rhino
• Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  - Po
• Wall-E
  WALL-E
  WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
  
  – Wall-E and Eve Truck Sequence

• Bolt -Various Sequences
• Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  - The Secret Ingredient - Visual Effects of Kung Fu Panda
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - Effects in Africa
• Wall-E
  WALL-E
  WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
  
  - Effects in WALL-E

• Changeling
  Changeling (film)
  Changeling is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Based on real-life events in 1928 Los Angeles, the film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman who is reunited with her missing son—only to realize he is an impostor. She confronts the city...
  
  
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Speed Racer
  Speed Racer (film)
  Speed Racer is a 2008 American live action film adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida's 1960s Japanese anime series of the same name, produced by Tatsunoko Productions. The film is written and directed by the Wachowskis...
  
  -Matte Paintings
• Synecdoche, New York
  Synecdoche, New York
  Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was Kaufman's directorial debut.The film premiered in competition at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2008...
  
  - Matte Paintings

• The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight (film)
  The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
  
   - Garbage Truck Crash Models & Miniatures
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
  - Suit Up Machine
• My Darling of the Mountains - Hot Springs

• Cloverfield
  Cloverfield
  Cloverfield is a 2008 American disaster-monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city...
  
  - Brooklyn Bridge Sequence
• The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight (film)
  The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
  
  - IMAX Gotham City Scapes
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Temple Heart
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
  The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
  The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a 2008 American action adventure film and sequel to The Mummy and The Mummy Returns . The film stars Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford, and Jet Li, and was released on August 1, 2008 in the United States...
  
  - Avalanche Sequence
• Synecdoche, New York
  Synecdoche, New York
  Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was Kaufman's directorial debut.The film premiered in competition at the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2008...
  
  - Created Environment

• The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
  
  
• Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
  
• Quantum of Solace

• The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight (film)
  The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
  
   - Overall
• Defiance
  Defiance (2008 film)
  Defiance is a 2008 World War II era film written, produced, and directed by Edward Zwick, set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The film is an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by three Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Poland during the Second World War...
  
  - Special Effects

Television

• Battlestar Galactica
  Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
  Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson...
  
   - Season 4
  Battlestar Galactica (season 4)
  The fourth and final season of the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States on April 4, 2008, and concluded on March 20, 2009. Similar to the second season, it was split into two parts, each containing 10 episodes...
  
  : BSG Space Battle
• Heroes
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
  - The Second Coming
  The Second Coming (Heroes)
  "The Second Coming" is the first episode of the third season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes and thirty-fifth episode overall. It was written by series creator/executive producer Tim Kring and directed by executive producer Allan Arkush...
  
  
• Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...
  
  - Ghost in the Machine
  Ghost Whisperer (season 4)
  The fourth season of Ghost Whisperer, an American television series created by John Gray, commenced airing in the United States on October 3, 2008, concluded May 15, 2009, and consisted of 23 episodes. The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with...
  
  
• Sarah Connor Chronicles - Episode 108

• Fringe
  Fringe (TV series)
  Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...
  
   - Episode 101 - Pilot
  Pilot (Fringe)
  The pilot episode of the television series Fringe premiered on the Fox network on September 9, 2008. The pilot was written by series creators J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, and directed by Alex Graves. The episode introduces the character Olivia Dunham, portrayed by Anna Torv, an FBI...
  
  
• Jericho
  Jericho (TV series)
  Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States...
  
  - Episode 7 - Patriots & Tyrants
  Patriots and Tyrants (Jericho episode)
  "Patriots and Tyrants" is the seventh episode of season two and series finale of Jericho. It was broadcast on March 25, 2008.-Summary:...
  
  
• Life - Frozen Solid
• Pushing Daisies
  Pushing Daisies
  Pushing Daisies is an American comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3, 2007 to June 13, 2009. The series stars Lee Pace as Ned, a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch, an ability that comes with stipulations...
  
  - The Legend of Merle McQuoddy

• Bacardi
  Bacardi
  Bacardi is a family-controlled spirits company, best known as a producer of rums, including Bacardi Superior and Bacardi 151. The company sells in excess of 200 million bottles per year in nearly 100 countries...
  
   - Sundance
• Coke
  Coca-Cola
  Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...
  
  - It's Mine
• FedEx
  FedEx
  FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...
  
  - Pigeon
• Monster Stork - Stork

• Dr. Who - The Next Doctor - Cyber King
• Generation Kill
  Generation Kill (TV series)
  Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO television miniseries based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was adapted for television by David Simon,...
  
  - Episode 2
• John Adams
  John Adams (TV miniseries)
  John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John...
  
   - Join or Die
• Knight Rider
  Knight Rider (2008 film)
  Knight Rider is a 2008 television movie which was created to serve as a backdoor pilot for the new Knight Rider television series, a revival of the series of the same name which aired during the 1980s...
  
  - Prometheus

• Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
   - Series 4
  Doctor Who (series 4)
  The fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 25 December 2007 with the Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned". Following the special, a regular series of thirteen episodes aired, starting with "Partners in Crime" on 5 April 2008 and ending with "Journey's End"...
  
   - Silence in the Library
  Silence in the Library
  "Silence in the Library" is the eighth episode of the fourth series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on 31 May 2008. It is the first of a two-part story, followed by "Forest of the Dead", and is the second two-parter Steven Moffat contributed to...
  
  
• Generation Kill
  Generation Kill (TV series)
  Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO television miniseries based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was adapted for television by David Simon,...
  
  - Episode 2
• Merlin the Mark of Nimueh Series 1
  Merlin (series 1)
  Series one of Merlin, a British fantasy television series, began on 20 September 2008 and ended on 13 December 2008. Season one regular cast members include Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Katie McGrath, Angel Coulby, Anthony Head, Richard Wilson, and John Hurt as the voice of the Great Dragon...
  
  - The Mark of Nimueh

• New Balance
  New Balance
  New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. , best known as simply New Balance, is a footwear manufacturer based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It was founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company...
  
   - Anthem
• Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer
  Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...
  
  - Episode 404
  Ghost Whisperer (season 4)
  The fourth season of Ghost Whisperer, an American television series created by John Gray, commenced airing in the United States on October 3, 2008, concluded May 15, 2009, and consisted of 23 episodes. The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with...
  
   - Claridon Ship Shots

• Audi
  Audi
  Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand , positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group....
  
  - Living Room - Living Room
• Heroes
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
  - Tokyo
• John Adams
  John Adams (TV miniseries)
  John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John...
  
   - Join or Die - Episode 1 - The Boston Harbor
• Wrigley's - Fruit Shredder

• Coke
  Coca-Cola
  Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...
  
  - It's Mine - Balloons
• FedEx
  FedEx
  FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...
  
  - PIGEON - Pigeon
• John Adams
  John Adams (TV miniseries)
  John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John...
  
   - Join or Die - Episode 1 - The Boston Harbor
• Time Sculpture
  Time Sculpture
  Time Sculpture is a British television and cinema advertisement launched in 2008 to promote Toshiba's high-definition television upscaling technology in the United Kingdom...
  
  

Video games

• Crysis Warhead
  Crysis Warhead
  Crysis Warhead is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by the studio Crytek Budapest, Hungary, and published by Electronic Arts. Crysis Warhead is a stand-alone expansion game and does not require Crysis installed to play...
  
  
• Dead Space
  Dead Space (video game)
  Dead Space is a survival horror third-person shooter video game, developed by EA Redwood Shores for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was made available on Steam on October 20, 2008...
  
  
• Need for Speed: Undercover
  Need for Speed: Undercover
  Need for Speed: Undercover is the 12th installment of the popular racing video game series Need for Speed, developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts . It was released on PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, and mobile...
  
  - Xbox 360

• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
  Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
  Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on February 14, 2008, it was released on October 28, 2008 in the United States for Microsoft Windows-based PCs and three days later in Europe. A version for...
  
  - Chrono Lab, Empire, and Allied Scenes
• Need for Speed: Undercover
  Need for Speed: Undercover
  Need for Speed: Undercover is the 12th installment of the popular racing video game series Need for Speed, developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts . It was released on PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, and mobile...
  
  - Cinematics
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
  World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
  World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, often referred to as WotLK, WLK or Wrath, is the second expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft, following The Burning Crusade...
  
   - Intro Cinematics

Other

• Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
  Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
  Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk is an American documentary film directed by Greg MacGillivray and narrated by Robert Redford. It was released to IMAX 3D Theaters in 2008....
  
  - Main Title Sequence
• U2 3D
  U2 3D
  U2 3D is a 2008 American-produced 3-D concert film featuring rock band U2 performing during the Vertigo Tour in 2006. The film features performances of 14 songs, including tracks from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb , the album supported by the tour. The concert footage includes political and...
  
  - Selected Shots

• Hangar Number Five - Robot Attack
• La Main Des Maitres - Revolution
• Our Wonderful Nature
• Plastic - Transformation Sequence

External links

• 7th Annual VES Awards Recipients