by ggrusby | Feb 22, 2024 | Awards, London News, San Francisco News, Sydney News, Vancouver News
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,...
by John Hannon | Feb 21, 2024 | Awards, London News, San Francisco News
Ever since George Lucas and John Dykstra sat down in 1975 to discuss the former’s vision of capturing dynamic aerial dogfights between miniature spaceships in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has made an art of solving creative problems...
by ggrusby | Jan 18, 2024 | Awards, London News, San Francisco News
Earlier today BAFTA announced the nominations for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards, celebrating the very best in film over the past year. ILM contributed to four of the five films recognized with a nomination in the Special Visual Effects category. Jay Cooper,...
by ggrusby | Jan 17, 2024 | Awards, London News, San Francisco News, Vancouver News
Gareth Edwards’ The Creator leads the feature film field with seven nominations six of which are for ILM work. In all, ILM visual effects artistry was recognized with 19 nominations including those for The Creator. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and Dungeons...
by Ian Kintzle | Jun 26, 2023 | Awards, London News, Mumbai News, San Francisco News, Singapore News, StageCraft, Sydney News, Uncategorized, Vancouver News, Vision & Craft
The filmmaker and Lucasfilm legend talks to ILM.com to reflect on what drew him to tell the story of the hit Disney+ series, “Light & Magic”. Screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan. How did you get involved with Light & Magic?Several years ago...
by Ian Kintzle | Sep 6, 2022 | Awards, London News, San Francisco News, Uncategorized, Vision & Craft
The Television Academy announced its winners for the 74th Annual Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards over the weekend, celebrating today’s talent and their groundbreaking work. ILM’s creative teams were honored with an award for Outstanding Special Visual...