Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri, Ryan Stafford, Matt Kutcher, Dan Lemmon, Hannah Blanchini
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Big Hero 6
Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli, Zach Parrish
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Birdman
Ara Khanikian, Ivy Agregan, Sebastien Moreau, Isabelle Langlois
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program
Game of Thrones; The Children
Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Stuart Brisdon, Thomas Schelesny, Sven Martin
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program
American Horror Story; Freak Show; Edward Mordrake, Part 2
Jason Piccioni, Jason Spratt, Mike Kirylo, Justin Ball, Eric Roberts
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Christoph Salzmann, Florian Schroeder, Quentin Hema, Simone Riginelli
Outstanding Compositing in a in a Photoreal/Live Action Commercial
SSE
Neil Davies, Leonardo Costa, Gianluca DiMarco
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program
Game of Thrones; The Watchers on the Wall
Dan Breckwoldt, Martin Furman, Sophie Marfleet, Eric Andrusyszyn
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
SSE; Maya
Neil Davies, Alex Hammond, Jorge Montiel, Beth Vander
Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Yi-chao Sandy Lin-Chiang, Joseph Salud, Demetrius Leal, Dave Blizard
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project
Wrapped
Roman Kaelin, Falko Paeper, Florian Wittmann, Paolo Tamburrino
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Torquee de Remy
Tony Apodaca, Marianne McLean, Gilles Martin, Edwin Chang, Mark Mine
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal/Live Action Motion Media Project
X-Men: Days of Future Past; Kitchen Scene
Austin Bonang, Casey Schatz, Dennis Jones, Newton Thomas Sigel
Outstanding Models in any Motion Media Project
Big Hero 6; City of San Fransokyo
Brett Achorn, Minh Duong, Scott Watanabe, Larry Wu
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Big Hero 6; Into the Portal
Ralf Habel, David Hutchins, Michael Kaschalk, Olun Riley
Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game
Game of Thrones; Braavos Establisher
Rene Borst, Christian Zilliken, Jan Burda, Steffen Metzner
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Interstellar; Tesseract
Tom Bracht, Graham Page, Thomas Døhlen, Kirsty Clark
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
X-Men: Days of Future Past; Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen
Adam Paschke, Premamurti Paetsch, Sam Hancock, Timmy Lundin
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Big Hero 6
Henrik Falt, David Hutchins, Michael Kaschalk, John Kosnik
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Dominique Vidal, Isabelle Perin-Leduc, Sandrine Lurde, Alexandre Lerouge
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Big Hero 6; Baymax
Colin Eckart, John Kahwaty, Zach Parrish, Zack Petroc
Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Caesar
Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Andrea Merlo, Emiliano Padovani
Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game
SSE; Maya
Jorge Montiel, Alex Hammond, Daniel Kmet, Philippe Moine
While I am an Interstellar apologist/advocate/defender, I think Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is more than deserving of the Visual Effects honors this year. Apes lives or dies by its VE and is way more dependent on them than Interstellar is and I think that’s something that should be considered in this category. The VE are also really fucking amazing.
My issue, however, is that I think Interstellar is suffering from a sort of “take-down,” initiated not by one person, but collectively as a sort of (perhaps unintentional) movement against the film since its release–the lack of a cinematography nomination is probably the clearest example of this. I think a consensus has grown and will culminate with the Oscars, to actively NOT vote for Interstellar and I think it’s going to walk away empty-handed on Oscar night. I wouldn’t be surprised if X-Men walks away with the award for that dazzling and showy Quicksilver scene.
In any event, this year has initiated a detour from what’s been true of the Visual Effects category in the last 5 years. Some of you may remember me pointing to the trends of the last 5 years that the Visual Effects winner has been a thread leading to one of the year’s top BP contenders, but this year, for the first time since the BP field expanded, there isn’t a BP nominee in the VE field and the VE winner won’t align with the Cinematography winner (because no film has a nomination in both).
I thought Hobbit had some of the most disappointing vfx I’ve ever seen. Happy it didn’t get the Oscar nod this time.
X Men DOFP nod has to be solely based on the Quicksilver sequence, otherwise I just can’t comprehend it.
Filmatelist has it down, folks. That’s your lesson for the day.
Also, even Death Becomes Her had more immediate appeal to Academy voters than Dawn of the Planet of the Apes does. It was a quaint, star-driven comedy with popular lead actors and the benefit of not being a sequel. If voters want to atone for refusing Rise of the Planet of the Apes the Oscar that almost everyone expected (and wanted) it to get, I wonder if Interstellar’s five nominations might help push it over Dawn’s popularity level.
Interstellar has pretty visual effects which, more importantly, look like visual effects. Voters love that shit.
Still, Dawn 100% deserves this award. These are some of the finest VFX in cinema history.
YES! Hopefully the academy will follow. Apes is a much superior film compared to Interstellar that is not even funny.
Hail, Caesar!
that is all.
sHouldve been nominated
The babadok
Big hero 6
Edge of tomorrow
The hobbit 3
Interstellar
Dawn of the planet of the apes was freak in crazy and awesome but interstellar was the better visual effects picture. GotG was fun but cheesy. X-men and capt America the winter solder were weak nominees. Should’ve nominated edge of tomorrow and the hobbit 3 those effects were phenomenal. Another great visual effects movie this year was the Babadook and Grand Budapest Hotel had remarkable effects too.
There is a basic cardinal rule for the VFX Oscar–it either goes to the film with (a) the most total nominations, or (b) made the most $$$–preferably both.
In the last 20 years, the only times this rule didn’t apply were:
THE GOLDEN COMPASS beating TRANSFORMERS.
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME beating ARMAGEDDON
BABE beating APOLLO 13
Note that two of those involved Michael Bay, and the third was a head-to-head showdown (only 2 nominees) between two Best Picture contenders.
Also, the last film to win the category with no other nominations was DEATH BECOMES HER, back in 1992.
DAWN deserves it, but INTERSTELLAR will win.
“Apes” would be a worthy winner @ the Oscars. Some of the best No-Cap ever. And the quality wasn’t as inconsistent as it was in the original.
My friend Andrea win a VES award! He was one of the digital creators of Caesar. So happy for him! I do wonder whether Apes will take down Interstellar at the Oscars.
Hard to argue with the Apes win, although I have a soft spot for Interstellar and its use of models and real locations instead of pure CGI and greenscreen. Really created a feeling of grandeur and reality that other space films haven’t had. How often does this award predict the Oscar?
What a crock these awards were. In time, Interstellar is going to be appreciated for the great movie that it is. It isn’t right now, but give it a while.