Wednesday evening, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, held the 22nd Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry, and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games, and special venues.
ILM’s work on The Creator earned six nominations and won four awards including the coveted top prize Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature, Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature, Outstanding Model in a Photoreal of Animated Project, and Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature, with a partner company winning a fifth award for the film for Outstanding Compositing and Lighting in a Feature.
ILM’s work on Darren Aronofsky’s groundbreaking film Postcard from Earth won for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project while The Mandalorian (Season 3) won for Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, Game, Cinematic or Real-Time Project.
“It’s a true testament to our amazing global teams that our work was honored by our industry colleagues on the winning shows noted above as well as the ILM shows that were nominated, including Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny, Ahsoka, Willow, Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Napolean, Killers of the Flower Moon and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3” said Janet Lewin, ILM General Manager, “I couldn’t be more proud of our teams.”
