The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2002.
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 [1] | The Sum of All Fears | Glenn Neufeld, Derek Spears, Dan Malvin, Al DiSarro |
| Frida | Jeremy Dawson and Daniel Schrecker | |
| Gangs of New York | Michael Owens, Camille Geier, Edward Hirsh and Jon Alexander | |
| 2003 [2] | The Last Samurai | Jeffrey A. Okun, Thomas Boland, Bill Mesa, Ray McIntyre Jr. |
| Bad Boys 2 | Carey Villegas, Rob Legato, David Taritero and Layne Friedman | |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness, Robert Stromberg, Brooke Breton | |
| 2004 [3] | The Aviator | Robert Legato, Ron Ames, Matthew Gratzner, Pete Travers |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Louis Morin and Mark Dornfeld | |
| Troy | Nick Davis, Chas Jarrett, Jon Thum and Gary Brozenich | |
| 2005 [4] | Kingdom of Heaven | Wes Sewell, Victoria Alonso, Tom Wood, Gary Brozenich |
| Jarhead | Pablo Helman, Jeanie King, Grady Cofer and Brett Northcutt | |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Robert Stromberg, Julia Frey, Paul Graff and Adam Watkins | |
| 2006 [5] | Flags of Our Fathers | Michael Owens, Matthew Butler, Bryan Grill, Julian Levi |
| Blood Diamond | Jeffrey Okun, Thomas Boland, Tim Crosbie and Neil Greenberg | |
| Children of Men | Lucy Killick, Frazer Churchill, Tim Webber and Paul Corbould | |
| The Da Vinci Code | Barrie Hemsley, Angus Bickerton, Gary Brozenich and Paul Riddle | |
| 2007 [6] | Ratatouille | Michael Fong, Apurva Shah, Christine Waggoner, Michael Fu |
| Blades of Glory | Mark Breakspear, Randy Starr, Shauna Bryan and Kody Sabourin | |
| The Kite Runner | David Ebner, Les Jones, Todd Perry and Leif Einarsson | |
| We Own the Night | Kelly Port, Julian Levi, Brad Parker and Oliver Sarda | |
| Zodiac | Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Janelle Croshaw and Chris Evans | |
| 2008 [7] | Changeling | Michael Owens, Geoffrey Hancock, Jinnie Pak, Dennis Hoffman |
| Eagle Eye | Jim Rygiel, Jim Berney, Crys Forsythe-Smith and David Smith | |
| Nim's Island | Camille Cellucci, Scott Gordon, Fred Pienkos and James Straus | |
| Synecdoche, New York | Mark Russell, Richard Friedlander, Eric Robertson and Brett Miller | |
| Valkyrie | Richard R. Hoover, Maricel Pagulayan, Peter Nofz and Daniel Eaton | |
| 2009 [8] | Sherlock Holmes | Jonathan Fawkner, Chas Jarrett, David Vickery, Dan Barrow |
| Angels & Demons | Barrie Hemsley, Angus Bickerton, Ryan Cook and Mark Breakspear | |
| The Box | Michael Owens, Geoff Hancock, Cyndi Ochs and Dennis Hoffman | |
| Invictus | Thomas Tannenberger, Olcun Tan, Mark Kolpak and Peter Cvijanovic | |
| The Road | Mark O. Forker, Phillip Moses, Ed Mendez and Paul Graff |
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 [9] | Hereafter | Michael Owens, Joel Mendias, Bryan Grill, Danielle Plantec |
| Black Swan | Dan Schrecker, Colleen Bachman, Michael Capton, Brad Kalinoski | |
| Green Zone | Peter Chiang, Charlie Noble, Joss Williams, Matthew Plummer | |
| Robin Hood | Richard Stammers, Allen Maris, Jessica Norman, Max Wood | |
| Salt | Robert Grasmere, Camille Cellucci, Mark Breakspear, Ivan Moran | |
| 2011 [10] | Hugo | Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning, Robert Legato, Karen Murphy |
| Anonymous | André Cantarel, Volker Engel, Rony Soussan, Marc Weigert | |
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Laya Armian, Chas Jarrett, Seth Maury, Sirio Quintavalle | |
| Source Code | Annie Godin, Louis Morin | |
| War Horse | Duncan Burbidge, Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Zeh | |
| 2012 [11] | The Impossible | Felix Bergés, Sandra Hermida, Pau Costa Moeller |
| Argo | Matt Dessero, Gregory McMurry, Tom Smith, Michele Vallillo | |
| Flight | Kevin Baillie, Michael Lantieri, Chris Stoski, Ryan Tudhope | |
| Rust and Bone | Béatrice Bauwens, Cédric Fayolle, Nicolas Rey, Stéphane Thibert | |
| Zero Dark Thirty | Geoff Anderson, Chris Harvey, Jeremy Hattingh, Richard Stutsman | |
| 2013 [12] | The Lone Ranger | Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Shari Hanson, Kevin Martel |
| The Great Gatsby | Chris Godfrey, Prue Fletcher, Joyce Cox | |
| Rush | Jody Johnson, Moriah Etherington-Sparks, Mark Hodgkins, Antoine Moulineau | |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Guillaume Rocheron, Kurt Williams, Monette Dubin, Ivan Moran | |
| White House Down | Marc Weigert, Volker Engel, Julia Frey, Ollie Rankin | |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Robert Legato, Mark Russell, Joseph Farrell, Lisa Spence | |
| 2014 [13] | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Ara Khanikian, Ivy Agregan, Sebastien Moreau |
| Divergent | Jim Berney, Greg Baxter, Matt Dessero | |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | Gabriel Sanchez, Jenny Foster, Simon Weisse, Jan Burda | |
| The Imitation Game | Stuart Bullen, Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor, Simon Rowe | |
| Unbroken | Bill George, Steve Gaub, Erin Dusseault, Dave Morley, Brian Cox | |
| 2015 [14] | The Revenant | Rich McBride, Ivy Agregan, Jason Smith, Nicolas Chevallier, Cameron Waldbauer |
| Bridge of Spies | Sven Martin, Jennifer Meislohn, Charlie Noble, Sean Stranks, Gerd Nefzer | |
| Everest | Dadi Einarsson, Roma O-Connor, Matthias Bjarnsasson, Richard Van Den Bergh | |
| In the Heart of the Sea | Jody Johnson, Leslie Lerman, Sean Stranks, Bryan Hirota, Mark Holt | |
| The Walk | Kevin Baillie, Camille Cellucci, Viktor Muller, Sebastien Moreau | |
| 2016 [15] | Deepwater Horizon | Craig Hammack, Petra Holtorf-Stratton, Jason Snell, John Galloway, Burt Dalton |
| Allied | Kevin Baillie, Sandra Scott, Brennan Doyle, Viktor Muller, Richard Van Den Bergh | |
| Jason Bourne | Charlie Noble, Dan Barrow, Julian Gnass, Huw Evans, Steve Warner | |
| Silence | Pablo Helman, Brian Barlettani, Ivan Busquets, Juan Garcia, R. Bruce Steinheimer | |
| Sully | Michael Owens, Tyler Kehl, Mark Curtis, Bryan Litson, Steven Riley | |
| 2017 [16] | Dunkirk | Andrew Jackson, Mike Chambers, Andrew Lockley, Alison Wortman, Scott Fisher |
| Darkest Hour | Stephane Naze, Warwick Hewitt, Guillaume Terrien, Benjamin Magana | |
| Downsizing | James E. Price, Susan MacLeod, Lindy De Quattro, Stéphane Nazé | |
| Mother! | Dan Schrecker, Colleen Bachman, Ben Snow, Wayne Billheimer, Peter Chesney | |
| Only the Brave | Eric Barba, Dione Wood, Matthew Lane, Georg Kaltenbrunner, Michael Meinardus | |
| 2018 [17] | First Man | Paul Lambert, Kevin Elam, Tristan Myles, Ian Hunter, JD Schwalm |
| 12 Strong | Roger Nall, Robert Weaver, Mike Meinardus | |
| Bird Box | Marcus Taormina, David Robinson, Mark Bakowski, Sophie Dawes, Mike Meinardus | |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Paul Norris, Tim Field, May Leung, Andrew Simmonds | |
| Outlaw King | Alex Bicknell, Dan Bethell, Greg O’Connor, Stefano Pepin | |
| 2019 [18] [19] | The Irishman | Pablo Helman, Mitchell Ferm, Jill Brooks, Leandro Estebecorena, Jeff Brink |
| 1917 | Guillaume Rocheron, Sona Pak, Greg Butler, Vijay Selvam, Dominic Tuohy | |
| The Aeronauts | Louis Morin, Annie Godin, Christian Kaestner, Ara Khanikian, Mike Dawson | |
| Ford v Ferrari | Olivier Dumont, Kathy Siegel, Dave Morley, Malte Sarnes, Mark Byers | |
| Joker | Edwin Rivera, Brice Parker, Mathew Giampa, Bryan Godwin, Jeff Brink |
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 [20] | Mank | Wei Zheng, Peter Mavromates, Simon Carr, James Pastorius |
| Da 5 Bloods | Randall Balsmeyer, James Cooper, Watcharachai "Sam" Panichsuk | |
| Extraction | Marko Forker, Lynzi Grant, Craig Wentworth, Olivier Sarda | |
| News of the World | Roni Rodrigues, Dayaliyah Lopez, Ian Fellows, Andrew Morley, Brandon K. McLaughlin | |
| Welcome to Chechnya | Ryan Laney, Eugen Bräunig, Maxwell Anderson, Johnny Han, Piers Dennis | |
| 2021 [21] | Last Night in Soho | Tom Proctor, Gavin Gregory, Julian Gnass, Fabricio Baessa |
| Candyman | Andrew Zink, James McQuaide, Josh Simmonds, Drew Dir, Ryan Evans | |
| The Last Duel | Gary Brozenich, Helen Judd, Jessica Norman, Yann Blondel, Stefano Pepin | |
| Nightmare Alley | Dennis Berardi, Ryan MacDuff, Mark Hammond, David Roby, Geoff Hill | |
| The Tragedy of Macbeth | Alex Lemke, Michael Huber, Michael Ralla, Benedikt Laubenthal | |
| 2022 [22] | 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 |
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2008.
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2002. Since its inception, the award's title has gone through six different title changes, and one major category shift. First awarded in 2002, the award was titled "Outstanding Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture" and given to the best character animation in a live action film, with no specific character cited. This would change in 2004, when the category was re-titled "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture", and given to visual effects artists for work on a specified character. The category was again re-titled in 2008, this time to "Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture". In 2014, it was titled "Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture", but changed in 2016 to "Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature" and once again in 2017 to its current title.
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The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Picture is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting in 2002. While the award's title has changed several time within this period, the recipient has always been a visual effects-heavy feature film; film's with more background effects work have their own category, the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture.
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2002. Since its inception, the award's title has gone through six title changes, and one major category shift. First awarded in 2002, the award was titled "Best Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture" and given to the best character animation in an animated film, with no specific character cited. This would change in 2004, when the category was re-titled "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture", and given to visual effects artists for work on a specified character. as well as the voice actor for the character. The category was again re-titled in 2008, this time to "Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture". In 2015, it was titled "Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature", but changed in 2017 to "Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature", its current title.
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2011. The award was originally titled "Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture", before being re-titled in 2016.
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The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting in 2004. While the award's title has changed several time within this period, the recipients have been television episodes and/or movies or specials with less prominent, more subtle visual effects work.
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The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting in 2003. It is awarded to visual effects artists for their work in compositing. It has gone through several title changes over the years; from 2003 to 2012, the category included commercials in the category, before refocusing in 2013, specifically nominating television programs.
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode or Real-Time Project is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting from 2002. Since its inception, the award's title has gone through several title changes, and one major category shift. First awarded in 2002, the award was titled "Best Character Animation in a Live Action Televised Program, Music Video or Commercial" and given to the best character animation in a televised program, with no specific character cited. This would change in 2004, when the category was re-titled "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program", and given to visual effects artists for work on a specified character. The category was again re-titled the following year, this time to "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video". In 2008, it was titled "Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program or Commercial", but changed in 2014 to "Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game" and once again the next year to "Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project". In the title changed to "Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode or Real-Time Project" and, finally, in 2017 to "Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode or Real-Time Project"
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting in 2012. It is awarded to visual effects artists for their work in effects simulations.
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2004. The award was originally titled "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program", and changed in 2005 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video". It was again changed in 2009, this time to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture", and again in 2011 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture". Before its final change in 2015, to its current title, it was re-titled in 2014 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture".