The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been nominated for two Visual Effects Society Awards. One for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture and the other for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture, for the character of Aslan.
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Dean Wright, Randy Starr, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Jim Mitchell, Theresa Corrao, Tim Alexander, Tim Webber
King Kong
Eileen Moran, Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Eric Saindon
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
John Knoll, Roger Guyett, Rob Coleman, Denise Ream
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Aslan
Richie Baneham, Erik De Boer, Matt Logue, Joe Ksander
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Dragon
Steve Rawlins, Eric Wong, Robert Weaver, Steve Nichols
King Kong – Kong
Andy Serkis, Christian Rivers, Atsushi Sato, Guy Williams
From the Rules: The VES Awards are not ‘just another awards show.’
Where else can we, as a community of visual effects professionals, come together to see the most amazing, stunning and excellent work of the year as well as the most subtle and beautiful work too, learn how we all did what we did, trade experiences, say hello to old friends and, most importantly, honor select peers with an award that is truly filled with integrity and meaning?
The point of these awards is to promote excellence in our art and craft by way of recognition where it is deserved. Not just visual effects supervisors – they have many other awards – but also visual effects producers, compositors, animators, models and miniatures creators, technical directors – virtually the entire field of visual effects artisans and craftspeople are eligible in one category or another.
The process by which we select both our nominees and bestow our awards is the most fair, thorough, egalitarian, honest and forthright of any awards program we know of. And that makes the VES Award even more meaningful.
