Avatar The Way Of Water

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‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’

Avatar: The Way of Water emerged as the big winner at the Visual Effects Society’s VES Awards on Wednesday (February 15) night, taking nine awards including the prize for photoreal feature. 

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was the most honoured animated film, winning the animated feature award and two other prizes. 

The Way of Water had gone into the ceremony, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, with 14 nominations, and Pinocchio with five. 

The VES Lifetime Achievement award went to producer Gale Anne Hurd and the VES Board of Directors Award to the Society’s former executive director Eric Roth. 

Film category winners of the 21st Annual VES Awards:

 

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Avatar: The Way of Water

Richard Baneham,Walter Garcia, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, JD Schwalm 

 

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Thirteen Lives

Jason Billington, Thomas Horton, Denis Baudin, Michael Harrison, Brian Cox 

 

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Aaron Weintraub, Jeffrey Schaper, Cameron Carson, Emma Gorbey 

 

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Avatar: The Way of Water; Kiri

Anneka Fris, Rebecca Louise, Leybourne Guillaume, Francois Jung, Rock Hwang 

 

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Pinocchio

Oliver Beale, Richard Pickersgill, Brian Leif Hansen, Kim Slate 

 

OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Avatar: The Way of Water; The Reef

Jessica Cowley, Joe W Churchill, Justin Stockton, Alex Nowotny 

 

OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; In the Stomach of a Sea Monster

Warren Lawtey, Anjum Sakharkar, Javier Gonzalez Alonso, Quinn Carvalho 

 

OUTSTANDING VIRTUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A CG PROJECT

Avatar: The Way of Water

Richard Baneham, Dan Cox, Eric Reynolds, AJ Briones 

 

OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT

Avatar: The Way of Water; The Sea Dragon

Sam Sharplin, Stephan Skorepa, Ian Baker, Guillaume Francois 

 

OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Avatar: The Way of Water; Water Simulations

Johnathan Nixon, David Moraton, Nicolas James Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian 

 

OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, Kiem Ching Ong, Jinguang Huang 

 

OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE

Avatar: The Way of Water; Water Integration

Sam Cole, Francois Sugny, Florian Schroeder, Jean Matthews 

 

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL (PRACTICAL) EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL PROJECT

Avatar: The Way of Water; Current Machine and Wave Pool

JD Schwalm, Richard Schwalm, Nick Rand, Robert Spurlock 

 

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD

Avatar: The Way of Water; Water Toolset

Alexey Stomakhin, Steve Lesser, Sven Joel Wretborn, Douglas McHale

 

A full list of VES Award winners is available on the Society’s official site.