The 9th Visual Effects Society

Visual Effects Society

The Visual Effects Society is the entertainment industry's only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, animators, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of...

 Awards, held in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 on February 1, 2011, honored the best visual effects in film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 of 2010. The show was hosted by Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor. He is best known for portraying Spencer Olchin in the popular sitcom The King of Queens, voicing Remy from the film Ratatouille and Thrasher from the Cartoon Network original series Robotomy.-Early life:Oswalt was born...

 and broadcast, in an edited version, on the ReelzChannel on February 19, 2011.

Honorary Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award:

• Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen
  Ray Harryhausen is an American film producer and special effects creator...
  
  

VES Visionary Award:

• Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter and producer.He received serious notice after his second feature Memento , which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him,...
  
  

Film

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture:

• Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...
  
  
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Inception
  Inception
  Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
  
  
• Iron Man 2
  Iron Man 2
  Iron Man 2 is a 2010 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the sequel to 2008's Iron Man, the second film in a planned trilogy and is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Jon...
  
  
• Tron: Legacy

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture:

• Black Swan
  Black Swan (film)
  Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis. Its plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The production requires a ballerina to...
  
  
• Green Zone
  Green Zone (film)
  Green Zone is a 2010 American war thriller film written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film was inspired by the non-fiction 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which documented life in the Green Zone, Baghdad...
  
  
• Hereafter
  Hereafter (film)
  Hereafter is a 2010 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways - all three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays...
  
  
• Robin Hood
  Robin Hood (2010 film)
  Robin Hood is a 2010 British/American adventure film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett...
  
  
• Salt

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture:

• How to Train Your Dragon
  How to Train Your Dragon (film)
  How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher...
  
  
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
• Shrek Forever After
  Shrek Forever After
  Shrek Forever After, taglined as The Final Chapter, is a 2010 animated fantasy-comedy film, and the fourth and final installment in the Shrek film series, produced by DreamWorks Animation. The film was released by Paramount Pictures in cinemas on May 20, 2010 in Russia, and on May 21 in the United...
  
  
• Tangled
• Toy Story 3
  Toy Story 3
  Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film, and the third installment in the Toy Story series. It was produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Lee Unkrich. The film was released worldwide from June through October in Disney Digital...
  
  

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture:

• Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
  Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
  Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore is a 2010 family action comedy film directed by Brad Peyton. The film stars Chris O'Donnell and Jack McBrayer. The film also stars the voices of James Marsden, Nick Nolte, Christina Applegate, Katt Williams, Bette Midler, and Neil Patrick Harris...
  
   - Kitty Galore
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a 2010 3D fantasy-adventure film based on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third novel in C. S. Lewis's epic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia . It is the third installment in The Chronicles of Narnia film series from Walden Media...
  
   - Reepicheep
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Dobby
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Kreacher

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture:

• How to Train Your Dragon
  How to Train Your Dragon (film)
  How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher...
  
   – Toothless
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole - Digger
• Megamind - Minion
• Tangled - Rapunzel

Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture:

• The Expendables
  The Expendables (2010 film)
  The Expendables is a 2010 American ensemble action film written by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone, and directed by Stallone. Filming began on March 28, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and the film was released in theaters on August 13, 2010 in North America.The film is...
  
   - The Palace Explodes
• Inception
  Inception
  Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
  
   - Hospital Fortress Destruction
• Iron Man 2
  Iron Man 2
  Iron Man 2 is a 2010 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the sequel to 2008's Iron Man, the second film in a planned trilogy and is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Jon...
  
   - Hammer Military Drones
• Shutter Island - Ward-C, Lighthouse

Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture:

• Inception
  Inception
  Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
  
   - Paris Dreamscape
• Iron Man 2
  Iron Man 2
  Iron Man 2 is a 2010 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the sequel to 2008's Iron Man, the second film in a planned trilogy and is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Jon...
  
   - Stark Expo
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film)
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a 2010 sword-and-sorcery action film written by Jordan Mechner, Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard; directed by Mike Newell; produced by Jerry Bruckheimer; and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures...
  
   - Sand Room
• Tron: Legacy - Disc Game

Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture:

• Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...
  
  
• Hereafter
  Hereafter (film)
  Hereafter is a 2010 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways - all three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays...
  
  
• Inception
  Inception
  Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
  
  
• Tron: Legacy

Television

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series:

• Caprica
  Caprica (TV series)
  Caprica is a science fiction drama television series. It is a spin-off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, taking place about 58 years prior to the events of Battlestar Galactica. Caprica shows how humanity first created the robotic Cylons who would later plot to destroy humans in...
  
  
• The Event
• No Ordinary Family
  No Ordinary Family
  No Ordinary Family is an American television series on ABC. The 45-minute science fiction comedy-drama was produced by ABC Studios for the 2010–11 television season. The series ran from September 28, 2010 to April 5, 2011, on Tuesdays at 8 pm ET/PT...
  
  
• Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...
  
  
• V
  V (2009 TV series)
  V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes...
  
  

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program:

• Boardwalk Empire
• Human Target
• Lost
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
  
  
• Undercovers
  Undercovers (TV series)
  Undercovers is an American action spy television series created by J. J. Abrams and Josh Reims for NBC. They were executive producers of the pilot along with Abrams' frequent collaborator Bryan Burk....
  
  
• The Walking Dead
  The Walking Dead (TV series)
  The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed for television by Frank Darabont and based on the ongoing comic book series, The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard...
  
  

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special:

• America: The Story of Us
  America: The Story of Us
  America: The Story of Us is a six-part, 12-hour documentary television miniseries that premiered on April 25, 2010, on History...
  
  
• Inside the Perfect Predator
• The Last Day of the Dinosaurs
  The Last Day of the Dinosaurs
  Last Day of the Dinosaurs is a 2010 Discovery Channel television documentary about the extinction of the dinosaurs. It portrays the Alvarez hypothesis as the cause of extinction.-Production:...
  
  
• The Pacific
• Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Live Action Commercial:

• Barclaycard
  Barclaycard
  Barclaycard, part of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, is a global payment business. The Barclaycard was the first credit card introduced in the UK, coming into service in 1966. It enjoyed a monopoly until the introduction of the Access card in 1972....
  
   - Rollercoaster
• DirecTV
  DirecTV
  DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
  
   - Ice Cream
• Halo: Reach
  Halo: Reach
  Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 console. Reach was released in North America, Australia, and Europe on September 14, 2010. The game takes place in the year 2552, where humanity is locked in a war with the...
  
  
• Verizon
  Verizon Communications
  Verizon Communications Inc. is a global broadband and telecommunications company and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
  
   - Towers
• Wrigley's 5 Gum
  5 (gum)
  5 is a brand of sugar-free chewing gum that is manufactured by the Wrigley Company. Advertisements for the gum suggest it stimulates the five human senses...
  
   - React

Outstanding Animated Commercial:

• Andrex
  Andrex
  Andrex is a British brand of toilet roll. It is a owned by the American company Kimberly-Clark. The "Andrex Puppy", a Labrador Retriever puppy that appears on the company's television adverts, is synonymous with the brand.Sold in the U.S...
  
  
• Cadbury's Spots V Stripes
• Dante's Inferno
  Dante's Inferno (video game)
  Dante's Inferno is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. The game was also released on the PlayStation Portable and was developed by Artificial Mind and Movement...
  
   - Hell Awaits
• Target
  Target Corporation
  Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...
  
   - A Better Bullseye
• World of Warcraft
  World of Warcraft
  World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...
  
  

Outstanding Animated Character in a Broadcast Program or Commercial:

• Cadbury - Freida Steer
• Citron C3 The Spacebox  - Citro
• Logitech
  Logitech
  Logitech International S.A. is a global provider of personal peripherals for computers and other digital platforms headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers...
  
   - Robot
• Prep and Landing: Operation Secret Santa
  Operation: Secret Santa
  Operation: Secret Santa is a computer animated short film sequel to 2009's Christmas special Prep & Landing, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and directed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton. The short premiered on TV channel ABC on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Another half-hour...
  
   - Lanny

Outstanding Crated Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program:

• Boardwalk Empire - Boardwalk
  Boardwalk Empire (episode)
  "Boardwalk Empire" is the first episode and the series premiere of the HBO crime drama Boardwalk Empire. Based upon Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson, the episode was written by creator Terence Winter and directed by Martin Scorsese, both of...
  
  
• Boardwalk Empire - Family Limitation
  Family Limitation
  "Family Limitation" is the sixth episode of the first season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, which premiered October 24, 2010...
  
  
• The Event - To Keep Us Safe
• The Pacific - The Battle of Iwo Jima

Outstanding Models & Miniatures in a Live Action Broadcast Program:

• Boardwalk Empire - The Ivory Tower
  The Ivory Tower (Boardwalk Empire)
  "The Ivory Tower" is the second episode of the first season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, which originally aired September 26, 2010. The episode was written by series creator and executive producer Terence Winter and directed by executive producer Tim Van Patten.Nucky is paid a...
  
  
• Family Guy
  Family Guy
  Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
  
   - Brian Griffin's House of Payne
  Brian Griffin's House of Payne
  "Brian Griffin's House of Payne" is the fifteenth episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on March 28, 2010. The episode features Brian after he discovers an old script he had written in the basement, and subsequently...
  
  

Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program or Commercial:

• Boardwalk Empire - Episode 1
  Boardwalk Empire (episode)
  "Boardwalk Empire" is the first episode and the series premiere of the HBO crime drama Boardwalk Empire. Based upon Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson, the episode was written by creator Terence Winter and directed by Martin Scorsese, both of...
  
  
• Drench Cubehead
• The Pacific - Peleliu Landing
• Travelers - Watering Hole

Video games

Outstanding Real-Time Visual Effects in a Video Game:

• Halo: Reach
  Halo: Reach
  Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 console. Reach was released in North America, Australia, and Europe on September 14, 2010. The game takes place in the year 2552, where humanity is locked in a war with the...
  
  
• Kinectimals
  Kinectimals
  Kinectimals is a video game for the Xbox 360 that uses Kinect. In Kinectimals players can interact with virtual animals in a manner akin to pets, gameplay includes activities such as teaching tricks to the animal, guiding the animal around an obstacle course, and free-form play.The video game is...
  
  
• Need for Speed
  Need for Speed
  Need for Speed is a series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts and developed by several studios including Canadian-based company EA Black Box and British-based Criterion Games...
  
  
• Starcraft II

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Video Game Trailer

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
  Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
  Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a multimedia project developed by LucasArts along with Dark Horse Comics, Lego, Hasbro, and Del Rey Books...
  
  
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
  Star Wars: The Old Republic
  Star Wars: The Old Republic, abbreviated as TOR or SWTOR, is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe. Currently in development by BioWare Austin and a supplemental team at BioWare Edmonton, the game was first announced on October 21, 2008, at an...
  
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• World of Warcraft
  World of Warcraft
  World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...
  
  

Outstanding Animated Character in a Video Game:

• Halo: Reach
  Halo: Reach
  Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 console. Reach was released in North America, Australia, and Europe on September 14, 2010. The game takes place in the year 2552, where humanity is locked in a war with the...
  
   - Kat
• Kinectimals
  Kinectimals
  Kinectimals is a video game for the Xbox 360 that uses Kinect. In Kinectimals players can interact with virtual animals in a manner akin to pets, gameplay includes activities such as teaching tricks to the animal, guiding the animal around an obstacle course, and free-form play.The video game is...
  
   - Cub
• Starcraft II - Sarah Kerrigan
  Sarah Kerrigan
  Sarah Louise Kerrigan, the self-styled Queen of Blades, is a major character and the predominant villain in Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft series of video games and novels. The character was created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, and her appearance was originally designed by Chris Metzen...
  
  

Other categories

Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short:

• Cat Shit One: The Animated Series
  Apocalypse Meow
  Apocalypse Meow is a three volume manga series written and illustrated by Motofumi Kobayashi. It was originally published in Japan as in 1998 by Softbank Publishing, but was renamed for the US release to parody the title of the film Apocalypse Now, which also took place during the Vietnam War. It...
  
  
• Day & Night
  Day & Night (2010 film)
  Day & Night is a Pixar animated short film directed by Teddy Newton. It has been packaged to be shown in theaters before Disney·Pixar's feature film Toy Story 3, and has been released to purchase on iTunes in the United States....
  
  
• Looney Tunes - Coyote Falls
  Coyote Falls
  Coyote Falls is a 2010 Looney Tunes film starring characters Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. It is directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, written by , produced by Reel FX Creative Studios and released by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the first Wile E...
  
  
• Paths of Hate
• Tick Tock Tale

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project:

• City Of Ruins
• Flight of the Dragon
• Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
  Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
  Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey is an attraction at the Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Florida, United States. It is the signature ride of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter area of the theme park, and takes riders through scenes and environments in and around Hogwarts Castle...
  
  
• King Kong: 360 3-D
  King Kong: 360 3-D
  King Kong: 360 3-D is an attraction which is included in the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. The attraction takes guests to a recreated version of Skull Island from Peter Jackson's 2005 award-winning blockbuster remake King Kong. It employs audio animatronics as well as 3-D HD imagery...
  
  

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project:

• Das Tub
• LOOM
• Nuisible(s)
• Time For Change

External links

• 9th Annual VES Awards Nominees Announced