5th Annual VES Awards2019-12-05T10:56:32-08:00

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5TH ANNUAL VES AWARDS

Friday, March 9, 2007

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest swept the honors with six trophies in total, winning those for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year, Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture, Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Motion Picture, Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture, and Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture.

Cars, Casino Royale, and Flags of Our Fathers all earned one honor each in Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture, Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture, and Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture, respectively.

In the small screen slot, sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica delightfully gained two awards in the categories of Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Broadcast Program.

Honorees

muren2Lifetime Achievement Award
Dennis Muren
Awarded for significant and lasting contributions to the art and science of the visual effects industry by way of vision, artistry, invention and innovation.

Highlights

_IDBm2swxgsDennis Muren receives the VES Lifetime Achievement Award
Dennis Muren is presented with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award at the 5th Annual VES Awards by George Lucas.

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Winners and Nominees

Below is the complete list of Winners and Nominees for the 5th Annual VES Awards. A sortable list for ALL years of VES Award winners / nominees can be found on the Previous VES Awards page. All archival viewing materials are cleared for viewing by logged-in VES members behind the VES website firewall. For more information, please review the VES Awards Rules & Procedures, Section 14: Ownership & Clearances here.

Please click on the category to reveal the nominees and winners

This award is to honor the overall achievement of the visual effects within a live action motion picture where the visual effects are a visible, essential, and integral part of the story and play a principal and active role in the motion picture. A rule of thumb for defining whether a motion picture would be considered effects-driven would be to ask if the story could be told without the active participation of the VFX (including Special Effects). On the whole, the VFX in an effects-driven film would be easily identifiable by the viewing public and professionals working in the VFX field.

Fully animated films are not eligible in this category.v

Charlotte´s Web
Karin Joy
John Berton
Blair Clark
John Dietz
Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Mans Chest (Winner)
John Knoll
Jill Brooks
Hal Hickel
Charlie Gibson
The Fountain
Jeremy Dawson
Dan Schrecker
Mark Soper
Peter Parks
This award is to honor the overall achievement of the visual effects within a live action motion picture where the visual effects play a supporting, minor or background role in the telling of the story. Supporting visual effects, when taken as a whole, may help create the setting, environment, or mood of an entire film, but are generally intended to be subtle or invisible to the lay viewer. They do not consist of a significant number of CG characters, science fiction or fantasy elements, and other highly visible effects that one would expect to see in a visual effects-driven or “tent pole” film.

Effects-driven films may not enter their “invisible” effects in this category, and animated films are not eligible.

Blood Diamond
Jeffrey Okun
Thomas Boland
Tim Crosbie
Neil Greenberg
Children of Men
Lucy Killick
Frazer Churchill
Tim Webber
Paul Corbould
Flags of Our Fathers (Winner)
Michael Owens
Matthew Butler
Bryan Grill
Julian Levi
The Da Vinci Code
Barrie Hemsley
Angus Bickerton
Gary Brozenich
Paul Riddle
This award is to honor the overall achievement of the visual effects within a single episode of an effects-driven miniseries, made-for-television movie or special that was broadcast and delivered via over-the-air, pay/basic cable, or satellite transmissions to homes. A rule of thumb for defining whether a program would be considered effects-driven would be to ask if the story could be told without the active participation of the VFX (including Special Effects).

Fight Science
Mat Beck
Kymber Lim
Manny Wong
Jack Matsumoto
Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Battleground (Winner)
Eric Grenaudier
Sam Nicholson
Mark Spatny
Adalberto Lopez
The Hogfather – Episode 1
Oliver Money
Simon Thomas
Kim Stevenson
Stephen Jolley
This award is to honor the achievement of the visual effects within a single episode of a series where the visual effects are a visible, essential, and integral part of the story and play a principal and active role in the show. A rule of thumb for defining whether a series would be considered effects-driven would be to ask if the story could be told without the active participation of the VFX (including Special Effects)

Battlestar Galactica – Episode 303b – Exodus (Winner)
Gary Hutzel
Michael Gibson
Alec McClymont
Brenda Campbell
Prehistoric Park – Episode 4
George Roper
Matt Fox
Laurent Hugueniot
Kevin Spruce
Smallville – Season 6 – Episode 1 – Zod
Mat Beck
Brian Harding
Trent Smith
John Wash
This award is to honor the overall achievement of the visual effects that play a supporting or background role within a single episode of a broadcast series, miniseries, made-for-television movie, or special wherein the visual effects are not necessarily essential to the telling of the story in the way that the effects of an effects-driven broadcast program are. Supporting visual effects, when taken as a whole, may help create the setting, environment, or mood of an entire program, and are generally intended to be invisible to the lay viewer. They do not consist of a significant number of CG characters, science fiction or fantasy elements, and other highly visible effects that one would expect to see in a visual effectsdriven broadcast program.

Alias – Reprisal / All the Time in the World
Kevin Blank
Jay Worth
Steve Fong
Kevin Kutchaver
Commander In Chief – EP 112 -The Wind Beneath Her Wings
Mark Kolpack
Adam Ealovega
Mark Spatny
Mike Enriquez
ER – Scoop and Run (Winner)
Sam Nicholson
Scott Ramsey
Adam Ealovega
Anthony Ocampo
Children of Men – Birth Sequence
Tim Webber
Lucy Killick
Andy Kind
Craig Bardsley
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest – Flying Dutchman Sequence (Winner)
John Knoll
Ned Gorman
Jakub Pistecky
Tom Fejes
Poseidon – Opening Sequence
Boyd Shermis
Rhonda Gunner
Kim Libreri
Philippe Rebours
X-Men: The last Stand – The Phoenix Force Sequence
Eric Saindon
Cyndi Ochs
GG Heitmann
Roger Shortt
Killers – Bones
Chas Jarrett
Dave Child
Paul O´Shea
Andrew Bell
U2 and Green Day – The Saints Are Coming (Winner)
Matt Winkel
Ben Looram
Wayne England
Graham Fyffe
Rexona – Go Wild
Andy Boyd
Stephane Allender
Dan Seddon
Abby Orchard
Sears Tools – Arboretum
Rich Rama
Cedric Nicolas
Laurent Ledru
Travelers – Snowball (Winner)
Dan Lemmon
Eileen Moran
R. Christopher White
Paul Story
The award is to honor the overall achievement of the visual effects within an entire Special Venue project. Special Venues are defined as installations specifically set up to project large-format films (e.g. IMAX or OMNIMAX theaters), theme park theaters that may include a motion-based ride, museums, World Fairs, and similar venues.

To be eligible, a Special Venue project must have been exhibited publicly:

  • In a commercial venue for a paid admission, which may include the general admission to a theme park or special venue theater;
  • For a minimum period of one week on a regular daily schedule; and
  • Premiered in the current awards year in a Special Venue theater as defined above.

The following are not eligible in this category, regardless of the material’s original capture format:

  • Special purpose events such as trade shows and conventions;
  • Video material generally referred to as “pre-show” material;
  • Repurposed films, i.e. projects initially intended for the theatrical market but which have been blown up for exhibition in large-format Special Venue theaters;
  • Projects that were created as conventional 2D theatrical presentations but have been repurposed to stereographic 3D;
  • Any 2D or stereographic 3D feature motion picture that either premiered first, or simultaneously, in any regular movie theater or in any broadcast medium;
  • Any project that runs for an equal or greater amount of time in any regular movie theater or in any broadcast medium; and
  • Movies intended for simultaneous distribution in both Special Venue and normal movie theaters. The intent of this category is to honor those projects made specifically for the Special Venue market.
Fields of Freedom
Sam Nicholson
Scott Ramsey
Adam Ealovega
Jon Craig
Greece, Secrets of the Past
Craig Barron
Ken Rogerson
Glenn Cotter
Chris Evans
Roving Mars (Winner)
Alan Markowitz
Dan Maas
Jeremy Nicolaides
Johnathan Banta
Fight Night Round 3 for PS3 (Winner)
Christopher Sjoholm
Kat Kelly Hayduk
Rob Hilson
Celia Jepson
Charlotte´s Web – Templeton
Todd Labonte
Jason Armstrong
Sven Jensen
David Richard Nelson
Charlotte´s Web – Wilbur
Grant Adam
Daniel Fotheringham
Avi Goodman
Paul Buckley
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest – Davy Jones (Winner)
Steve Walton
Jung-Seung Hong
Marc Chu
James Tooley
Cars – Mater (Winner)
Larry The Cable Guy
Mike Krummhoefener
Tom Sanocki
Nancy Kato
Happy Feet – Mumble´s Banishment
Damien Gray
Tim Gibson
Carl Prud´Homme
Monster House – House
Umberto Lazzari
Michael Kimmel
Kui Han Lee
Owen Demers
This award is to honor the overall achievement of a single created environment in a live action motion picture that best creates an illusion of setting for the story being told. Created environments are defined as either completely artificial environments, or the enhancement of an existing practical set or location through the addition of elements not present during photography. The environment may occur more than once in the project and under different conditions, but must be the same environment, created by the exact same team.

This category judges not only the techniques for creating the environment, but also their integration with any practical plate photography. Before & Afters must show the integration of the multiple elements used to create the environment.

Stereo extractions of environments that do not contain any other significant enhancements or fully animated productions are not eligible in this category. For practical purposes, the environment should be a single setting within the story, and not, for example, all locations within an entire city.

Mission: Impossible III
Russell Earl
Richard Bluff
Giles Hancock
Dennis Martin
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest (Winner)
Chris Stoski
Susumu Yukuhiro
Jack Mongovan
Greg Salter
Poseidon
Mohen Leo
Daniel Pearson
Willi Geiger
Matt Brumit
Battlestar Galactica – Episode 217 – Downloaded
Ryan Cronin
Louie Hinayo
Andy Asperin
Trevor Adams
Doctor Who – Episode 2, Series 2
Nicholas Hernandez
Jean Claude Deguara
Neil Roche
Jean-Yves Adouard
Geico – Chat (Winner)
David Hulin
Seth Gollub
Andy Walker
Jenny Bichsel
Coke – The Greatest Gift
David Hulin
Nathan Hughes
Jenny Bichsel
Andy Walker
Elizabeth – Episode 1 (Winner)
Dave Bowman
Jimmy Kidell
Russell Horth
Gurel Mehmet
ESPN – Monday Night Football Remote Open
Luke McDonald
Danny Braet
Minory Sasaki
Josh McGuire
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest (Winner)
Bruce Holcomb
Ron Woodall
Charlie Bailey
Carl Miller
The Good Shepherd
Matthew Gratzner
Forest Fischer
Enrico Altmann
Leigh-Alexandra Jacob
V For Vendetta
Jose Granell
Nigel Stone
Battlestar Galactica – Season 2 – Episode 218 – Resurrection Ship, Part 2 (Winner)
Steve Graves
Jose Peretz
Mark Shimer
Chris Zapara
Commander In Chief – EP 112 – Air Force One
Mike Enriquez
Dodge – Fairy
Matthew Gratzner
Forest Fischer
Jon Warren
Scott Schneider
Battlestar Galactica – Season 2, Episode 218 – Resurrection Ship, Part 2
Lane Jolly
Don Kim
Matt Smith
Chris Zapara
Coke – The Greatest Gift
Murray Butler
MaryAnne Lauric
Nathan Hughes
Pedro Sabrosa
Sports Heaven
Geoff McAuliffe
Yafei Wu
Robert Sethi
Jimi Simmons
Travelers – Snowball (Winner)
Laure Lacroix
Lyse Beck
Steve McGillen
Matt Holland
This award is to honor outstanding achievement in compositing multiple elements into a final visual effect shot or group of shots in a live action feature motion picture. This category is for a body of work created for a single motion picture by an individual artist or team of artists.

Multiple entries from the same project are eligible provided the compositing teams are 100% different and the shots being submitted are completelydifferent. Title sequences are eligible as long as:

  • They are submitted in textless form in order not to conflict with any other awards rule; and
  • They are part of the storytelling and are not a specially designed separate animated title sequence in a live action project.

Animated films are not eligible in this category.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest (Winner)
Eddie Pasquarello
Francois Lambert
Jeff Sutherland
Tory Mercer
Poseidon
Scott Younkin
Janeen Elliott
Brian Connor
Mark Nettleton
The DaVinci Code – Saint Sulpice Sequence
Mathew Krentz
Jordan Benwick
Enrico Perei
Rafal Kaniewski
Casino Royale (Winner)
Chris Corbould
Peter Notley
Ian Lowe
Roy Quinn
Superman Returns
Neil Corbould
David Brighton
David Young
Robert Heggie