VES Awards and British Animation Awards Name 2022 Winners

The Visual Effects Society(VES) is the international organisation for those in the VFX field. Each year they also host the VES Awards which recognise the best in VFX work. The recently held VES Awards marked their 20th year, and also the 25th year of VES itself.

The 2022 VES Awards saw two films in particular dominate. In the 'photoreal' categories, Denis Villeneuve's Dune took 4 awards. In animation Encanto was the big winner, also taking home four.

VES also gave the lifetime achievement award to VP/General Manager of Lucasfilm, Lynwen Brennan. and the Award for Creative Excellence to Guillermo del Toro.

"As we celebrate the Society’s 25th Anniversary and 20th Annual VES Awards, we’re honoured to keep shining a light on remarkable visual effects artistry and innovation," VES Chair Lisa Cooke said. "In all of our colleagues honoured tonight, we see best in class work that elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of adaptation and ingenuity — talents that have kept audiences engaged and uplifted, now, more than ever.  The VES Awards is the only venue that showcases and honours these outstanding global artists across a wide range of disciplines, and we are extremely proud of all our winners and nominees!"

See the full list of winners below

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Dune

Paul Lambert

Brice Parker

Tristan Myles

Brian Connor

Gerd Nefzer

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Last Night in Soho

Tom Proctor

Gavin Gregory

Julian Gnass

Fabricio Baessa

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Encanto

Scott Kersavage

Bradford Simonsen

Thaddeus P. Miller

Ian Gooding

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE

Foundation: The Emperor’s Peace

Chris MacLean

Addie Manis

Mike Enriquez

Chris Keller

Paul Byrne

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE

See: Rock-A-Bye

Chris Wright

Parker Chehak

Javier Roca

Tristan Zerafa

Tony Kenny

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A REAL-TIME PROJECT

Call of Duty: Vanguard

Yi-chao Sandy Lin-Chiang

Joseph Knox

Gareth Richards

Shane Daley

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A COMMERCIAL

Sheba: Hope Reef

Grant Walker

Sophie Harrison

Hernan Llano

Michael Baker

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SPECIAL VENUE PROJECT

Jurassic World Adventure

Eugénie von Tunzelmann

Maximilian McNair MacEwan

Stephen Goalby

Brad Silby

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Finch: Jeff

Harinarayan Rajeev

Matthias Schoenegger

Simon Allen

Paul Nelson

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Encanto: Mirabel Madrigal

Kelly McClanahan

Sergi Caballer

Mary Twohig

Jose Luis “Weecho” Velasquez

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN EPISODE OR REAL-TIME PROJECT

The Witcher: Nivellen the Cursed Man

Marko Chulev

Rasely Ma

Mike Beaulieu

Robin Witzsche

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN A COMMERCIAL

Smart Energy: Einstein Knows Best; Einstein

Alex Hammond

Harsh Borah

Clare Williams

Andreas Graichen

OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Spider-Man: No Way Home: The Mirror Dimension

Eric Le Dieu de Ville

Thomas Dotheij

Ryan Olliffe

Claire Le Teuff

OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Encanto: Antonio’s Room

Camille Andre

Andrew Finley

Chris Patrick O’Connell

Amol Sathe

OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT

Sheba: Hope Reef

Henrique Campanha

Baptiste Roy

Luca Veronese

Timothee Maron

OUTSTANDING VIRTUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A CG PROJECT

Encanto: We Don’t Talk about Bruno

Nathan Detroit Warner

Dorian Bustamante

Tyler Kupferer

Michael Woodside

OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT

Dune: Royal Ornithopter

Marc Austin

Anna Yamazoe

Michael Chang

Rachael Dunk

OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE

Dune: Dunes of Arrakis

Gero Grimm

Ivan Larinin

Hideki Okano

Zuny Byeongjun An

OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

Raya and the Last Dragon

Le Joyce Tong

Henrik Fält

Rattanin Sirinaruemarn

Jacob Rice

OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT

Foundation: Collapse of the Galactic Empire

Giovanni Casadei

Mikel Zuloaga

Steven Moor

Louis Manjarres

OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE

Dune: Attack on Arrakeen

Gregory Haas

Francesco Dell’Anna

Abhishek Chaturvedi

Cleve Zhu

OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN AN EPISODE

Loki; Lamentis: Shuroo City Destruction

Paul Chapman

Tom Truscott

Biagio Figliuzzi

Attila Szalma

OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A COMMERCIAL

Verizon: The Reset

David Piombino

Rajesh Kaushik

Manideep Sanisetty

Tim Crean

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL (PRACTICAL) EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL PROJECT

Jungle Cruise

JD Schwalm

Nick Rand

Robert Spurlock

Nick Byrd

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A STUDENT PROJECT

Green

Camille Poiriez

Arielle Cohen

Eloise Thibaut

Louis Florean

Elsewhere in awards news, The bi-annual British Animation Awards also took place. The Oscar-nominated Affairs Of The Art won three awards bagging the writers award and best voice performance as well as Best Short Film. Locksmith Animation's debut feature Ron's Gone Wrong won in the Longform category. The children's choice award went to The Brilliant World Of Tom Gates. The full list of winners is below.

BEST DESIGN

Jingle Jangle – A Christmas Journey

Ian Spendloff

BEST USE OF SOUND

Zog and the Flying Doctors
Adrian Rhodes

BEST FACTUAL

Save Ralph
Spencer Susser

BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE

Affairs of the Art – Menna Trussler
Joanna Quinn

BEST UNDER-GRADUATE FILM

Suburb
Miles Jezuita

WRITERS AWARD

Les Mills for Affairs of the Art
Joanna Quinn

BEST POST-GRADUATE FILM

O Black Hole!
Renee Zhan

LAMB AWARD

Hodan Abdi
Nominated by Illuminated Films

BEST CHILDREN’S PRE-SCHOOL SERIES

Pip and Posy
Jeroen Jaspaert and Matt Tea

BEST CHILDREN’S SERIES

Milo
Chris Capstick

CUTTING EDGE

Dead Pixels S2
Jamie Jay Johnson, Asa Movshovitz

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Rocket Freudental – Der Stuhlkreis
Ged Haney

WILDCARD

Timeline
Osbert Parker

BEST IMMERSIVE ANIMATION

The Beast
Grant Berry, Dane Winn

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

Robin Robin
Composer: Ben Please and Beth Porter

BEST ANIMATION IN COMMERCIAL

The Girl Who Built a Rocket
Neeraja Raj

SOCIAL GOOD

Typically
Anna Ginsburg, Caitlin McCarthy

BEST LONGFORM

Ron’s Gone Wrong
Jean- Philippe Vine, Sarah Smith, Octavio E Rodriguez

BEST SHORT FILM

Affairs of the Art
Joanna Quinn