The Creator and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations

The Visual Effects Society has announced its nominations for the 22nd Visual Effects Society Awards. In the feature film categories, The Creator and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse lead with seven nominations each followed by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 with six nods.

“The artistry, ingenuity and passion of visual effects practitioners around the world have come together to create remarkable imagery,” VES chair Kim Davidson said. “We are seeing best-in-class work that elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of innovation. The VES Awards is the only venue that showcases and honors these outstanding artists across a wide range of disciplines, and we are extremely proud of our nominees.”

Full list of nominations below. The winners will be announced on February 21.

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE 

“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” 
Ben Snow 
Diana Giorgiutti 
Khalid Almeerani 
Scott Benza 
Sam Conway 

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” 
Stephane Ceretti 
Susan Pickett 
Alexis Wajsbrot 
Guy Williams 
Dan Sudick 

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” 
Andrew Whitehurst 
Kathy Siegel
Robert Weaver 
Julian Hutchens 
Alistair Williams 

“Oppenheimer” 
Andrew Jackson 
Mike Chambers, VES 
Giacomo Mineo 
Dave Drzewiecki 
Scot Fisher 

“The Creator” 
Jay Cooper
Julian Levi
Ian Comley 
Charmaine Chan 
Neil Corbould, VES 

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE 

“John Wick: Chapter 4” 
Janelle Croshaw Ralla 
Reina Sparks 
Jonathan Rothbart 
Javier Roca 
Gerd Nefzer 

“Killers of the Flower Moon” 
Pablo Helman
Brian Barlettani
Sam Bassett
Brandon Keys McLaughlin 

“Napoleon”
Charley Henley
Sarah Tulloch
Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet 
Simone Coco
Neil Corbould, VES 

“Nyad” 
Jake Braver
Fiona Campbell Westgate 
R. Christopher White 
Mohsen Mousavi 

“Society of the Snow” 
Félix Bergés 
Micaela Gagliano 
Laura Pedro 
Ezequiel Larrú 
Pau Costa 

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE 

“Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” 
Jon Biggins
Jim Lewis 
Charles Copping 
Matthew Perry 

“Elemental” 
Peter Sohn 
Denise Ream 
Sanjay Bakshi 
Stephen Marshall 

“Nimona” 
Archie Donato 
Yancy Lindquist 
Theodore Ty 
Anthony Kemp 

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” 
Alan Hawkins 
Christian Hejnal 
Michael Lasker 
Matt Hausman 

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” 
Matthieu Rouxel 
Marie Balland 
Jacques Daigle 
Vincent Leroy 

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE 

“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”; Topo the Octopus 
Thomas Ward
Andrew Butler
Felix Slinger-Thompson 
Jacob Burstein 

“Godzilla Minus One”; Godzilla 
Kosuke Taguchi 
Takashi Yamazaki 

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”; Rocket 
Nathan McConnel 
Andrea De Martis 
Antony Magdalinidis 
Rachel Williams 

“Wonka”; Oompa Loompa 
Dale Newton 
Kunal Ayer 
Valentina Ercolani 
Gabor Foner 

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE 

“Elemental”; Ember 
Gwendelyn Enderoglu 
Jared Fong
Jonathan Hoffman 
Patrick Witting 

“Elemental”; Wade 
Max Gilbert 
Jacob Kuenzel 
Dave Strick 
Benjamin Su 

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”; Spot 
Christopher Mangnall 
Craig Feifarek 
Humberto Rosa 
Nideep Varghese 

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”; Superfly 
Gregory Coelho 
Anne-Claire Leroux 
Simon Cuisinier 
Olivier Pierre 

OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE 

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”; Knowhere 
Omar Alejandro Lavrador Ibanez 
Fabien Julvecourt
Klaudio Ladavac
Benjamin Patterson 

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”; Underwater Wreck Environment 
Johan Gabrielsson 
Adrian Tsang 
Stefan Andersson 
Martin Eneroth 

“John Wick: Chapter 4”; Place de L’Étoile 
Manuel Gaudreau 
Fabrice Vienne 
Vignesh Ravi 
Laurent Makowski 

“The Creator”; Floating Village 
John Seru
Guy Williams 
Vincent Techer 
Timothée Maron 

OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE 

“Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”; Chicken Island 
Charles Copping 
Matthew Perry 
Jim Lewis 
Jon Biggins 

“Elemental”; Element City 
Chris Bernardi 
Brandon Montell 
David Shavers 
Ting Zhang 

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”; Mumbattan City 
Taehyun Park 
YJ Lee
Pepe Orozco 
Kelly Han 

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”; Midtown Manhattan 
Olivier Mitonneau 
Eddy Frechou 
Guillaume Chevet 
Arnaud Philippe-Giraux 

OUTSTANDING VIRTUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A CG PROJECT 

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” 
Joanna Davison 
Cheyana Wilkinson 
Michael Cozens 
Jason Desjarlais 

“Migration” 
Guylo Homsy 
Damien Bapst 
Antoine Collet 
David Dangin 

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” 
Rich Turner
Randolph Lizarda 
Daniela Campos Little 
Thomas Campos 

“The Creator” 

Roel Coucke 
Christopher Potter 
Amanda Johnstone-Batt 
Jeremy Bloch 

OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT 

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”; The Arête 
Kenneth Johansson 
Jason Galeon
Tim Civil
Artur Vil 

“Peter Pan & Wendy”; Jolly Roger 
Patrick Comtois 
Thomas Gallardo 
Harrison Stark 
David Thibodeau 

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”; Spider HQ 
Dongick David Sheen 
Mark JeongWoong Lee 
Mikaela Bantog
René Völker 

“The Creator”; Nomad 
Oliver Kane
Mat Monro 
Florence Green 
Serban Ungureanu 

OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE 

“Napoleon” 
Koen Hofmeester 
Gianmichele Mariani 
Clair Bellens
Hernan Llano Duque 

“Nyad”; Stormy Waters 
Korbinian Meier 
Sindy Saalfeld 
David Michielsen 
Andreas Vrhovsek 

“The Creator” 
Ludovic Ramisandraina 
Raul Essig
Mathieu Chardonnet 
Lewis Taylor 

“The Nun 2” 
Laurent Creusot 
Sebastien Podsiadlo 
Michael Moercant 
Benjamin Saurine 

OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE 

“Elemental” 
Kristopher Campbell 
Greg Gladstone
Jon Reisch
Kylie Wijsmuller 

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” 
Pav Grochola 
Filippo Maccari 
Naoki Kato 
Nicola Finizio 

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” 
Louis Marsaud 
Paul-Etienne Bourde 
Serge Martin 
Marine Pommereul 

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” 
Simon Pate 
Christophe Vazquez 
Milo Riccarand 

OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE 

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” 
Indah Maretha 
Beck Veitch 
Nathan Abbot 
Steve McGillen 

“John Wick: Chapter 4”; Apartment Massacre Videogame Style 
Javier Roca 
Julien Forest 
Thomas Bourdis 
Dominik Kirouac 

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” 
Bret St.Clair
Kieron Cheuk-Chi Lo 
Kelly Christophers 
Rowan Young 

“The Creator”; Bar 
Phil Prates 
Min Kim 

Nisarg Suthar 
Toshiko Miura 

“The Creator”; Spaceships 
Ben O-Brien
Juan Espigares Enriquez 
Wesley Roberts
Hayes Brien 

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL (PRACTICAL) EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL PROJECT 

“I’m a Virgo”
John McLeod 
Scott Kirvan 
Alec Gillis 
Carl Miller 

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” 
Neil Corbould, VES 
Ray Ferguson 
Keith Dawson 
Chris Motjuoadi 

“Oppenheimer” 
Scott Fisher 
James Rollins 
Mario Vanillo 

“Society of the Snow” 
Pau Costa
Carlos Laguna 
Guillermo F. Aldunate 
Eloy Cervera 

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD 

“Blue Beetle”; Machine Learning Cloth 
JohnMark Gibbons 
Allen Ruilova 
Momme Carl 
David Minor 

“Elemental”; Volumetric Neural Style Transfer 
Vinicius C. Azevedo 
Byungsoo Kim 
Raphael Ortiz
|Paul Kanyuk 

“The Flash;” Volumetric Capture 
Stephan Trojansky 
Thomas Ganshorn 
Oliver Pilarski 
Lukas Lepicovsky 

“Wish”; Dynamic Screen Space Textures for Coherent Stylization 
Brent Burley 
Daniel Teece 
Brian J. Green 

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A STUDENT PROJECT (AWARD SPONSORED BY AUTODESK) 

Au 8ème Jour 
Flavie Carin 
Agathe Sénéchal 
Alicia Massez 
Elise Debruyne 

L’Animal Sauce Ail 
Aurélien Duchez 
Ysaline Debut 
Diane Mazella 
Camille Rostan 

Loup y es-tu? 
Célina Lebon 
Louise Laurent 
Emma Fessart 
Annouck François 

Silhouette 
Alexis Lafuente 
Antoni Nicolaï 
Chloé Stricher 
Elliot Dreuille 


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.