Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature explained

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting in 2012. It is awarded to visual effects artists for their work in effects simulations.

Winners & Nominees

2010s

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Year	Film	Nominee(s)
2012 ^[1] ^[2]	Life of Pi (Storm of God)	Hary Mukhopadhyay, David Stopford, Mark Williams, Derek Wolfe
	Battleship	Florent Andorra, Willi Geiger, Rick Hankins, Florian Witzel
		Areito Echevarria, Chet Leavai, Garry Runke, Francois Sugny
	Life of Pi (Ocean)	Xavier Bourque, Sam Cole, Simone Riginelli
2013 ^[3] ^[4]	Gravity (Parachute and ISS Destruction)	Alexis Wajsbrot, Sylvain Degrotte, Horacio Mendoza, Juan-Luis Sanchez
		Areito Echevarria, Andreas Soderstrom, Ronnie Menahem, Christoph Sprenger
	Man of Steel	Brian Goodwin, Gray Horsfield, Mathieu Chardonnet, Adrien Toupet
	Pacific Rim (Fluid Simulation & Destruction)	Ryan Hopkins, Michael Balog, Patrick Conran, Rick Hankins

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Year	Film	Nominee(s)
2014 ^[5] ^[6]	(Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen)	Adam Paschke, Premamurti Paetsch, Sam Hancock, Timmy Lundin
	(Helicarrier Broadside and Crash)	Dan Pearson, Sheldon Serrao, Jose Burgos, Eric Jennings
	Edge of Tomorrow (Destruction and Sand)	Steve Avoujageli, Pawel Grochola, Atsushi Ikarashi, Paul Waggoner
		Jon Allitt, David Caeiro, Ronnie Menahem

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature

Year	Film	Nominee(s)
2015 ^[7] ^[8]	(Toxic Storm)	Dan Bethell, Clinton Downs, Chris Young
	(Hulk vs. Hulkbuster)	Michael Balog, Jim Van Allen, Florent Andorra, Georg Kaltenbrunner
	San Andreas (Hoover Dam/San Francisco Tsunami)	Joe Scarr, Lukas Lepicovsky, Yves D-Incau, Marcel Kern
	San Andreas (Los Angeles Destruction)	Remy Torre, Marc Horsfield, Niall Flinn, Victor Grant
	(Starkiller Base)	Rick Hankins, Dan Bornstein, John Doublestein, Gary Wu
2016 ^[9] ^[10]	The Jungle Book (Nature Effects)	Oliver Winwood, Fabian Nowak, David Schneider, Ludovic Ramisandraina
	Alice Through the Looking Glass (Rust)	Klaus Seitschek, Joseph Pepper, Jacob Clark, Cosku Turhan
	Doctor Strange (Hong Kong Reverse Destruction)	Florian Witzel, Georges Nakhle, Azhul Mohamed, David Kirchner
	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Jedha Destruction)	Miguel Perez Senent, Matt Puchala, Ciaran Moloney, Luca Mignardi
2017 ^[11] ^[12]	War for the Planet of the Apes	David Caeiro Cebrian, Johnathan Nixon, Chet Leavai, Gary Boyle
		Florent Andorra, Alexis Hall, Raul Essig, Branko Grujcic
	Only the Brave (Fire & Smoke)	Georg Kaltenbrunner, Thomas Bevan, Philipp Zaufel, Himanshu Joshi
	(Bombing Run)	Peter Kyme, Miguel Perez Senet, Ahmed Gharraph, Billy Copley
	Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Mega Destroyer Destruction)	Mihai Cioroba, Ryoji Fujita, Jiyong Shin, Dan Finnegan
2018 ^[13] ^[14]	(Titan)	Sabine Laimer, Tim Walker, Tobias Wiesner, Massimo Pasquetti
	Avengers: Infinity War (Wakanda)	Florian Witzel, Adam Lee, Miguel Perez Senent, Francisco Rodriguez
		Dominik Kirouac, Chloe Ostiguy, Christian Gaumond
	Venom	Aharon Bourland, Jordan Walsh, Aleksandar Chalyovski, Federico Frassinelli
2019 ^[15] ^[16]		Don Wong, Thibault Gauriau, Goncalo Cabaca, Francois-Maxence Desplanques
	Dumbo (Bubble Elephants)	Sam Hancock, Victor Glushchenko, Andrew Savchenko, Arthur Moody
	The Lion King	David Schneider, Samantha Hiscock, Andy Feery, Kostas Strevlos
	(Molten Man)	Adam Gailey, Jacob Santamaria, Jacob Clark, Stephanie Molk

2020s

Year	Film	Nominee(s)
2020 ^[17]	Project Power	Yin Lai, Jimmy Leung, Jonathan Edward Lyddon-Towl, Pierpaolo Navarini, Michelle Lee
	Bloodshot	Omar Meradi, Jeremy Poupin, Sylvain Robert, Deak Ferrand
	Greyhound	Mike Nixon, Nicholas Papworth, Jeremy Smith, Yashdeep Sawant
	Monster Hunter	Vimal Mallireddy, Warren Lawtey, Tom O'Bready, Dominik Haase
	Mulan	Theo Vandernoot, Sandra Balej, James Carson, Yuri Rudakov
2021 ^[18]	Dune (Dunes of Arrakis)	Gero Grimm, Ivan Larinin, Hideki Okano, Zuny An
	Godzilla vs. Kong (Ocean Water & Battle Destruction)	Jonathan Freisler, Nahuel Alberto Letizia, Eloi Andaluz Fullà, Saysana Rintharamy
	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Water, Bubbles & Magic)	Simone Riginelli, Claude Schitter, Teck Chee Koi, Arthur Graff
	The Suicide Squad (Corto Maltese City Destruction)	David R. Davies, Rogier Fransen, Sandy Sutherland, Brandon James Fleet
2022 ^[19]	(Water Simulations)	Jonathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicolas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian
	(Fire and Destruction)	Miguel Perez Senent, Xavier Martin Ramirez, David Kirchner, Ole Geir Eidsheim
	(City Street Flooding)	Matthew Hanger, Alexis Hall, Hang Yang, Mikel Zuloaga
		Jesse Parker Holmes, Grayden Solman, Toyokazu Hirai, Rob Richardson

Superlatives

Films with Multiple Nominations

2 Nominations

• Life of Pi
• San Andreas

External links

• Visual Effects Society

Notes and References

1. Web site: VES Award Nominees Are Announced . Rahim Zahed . January 7, 2013 . . Jean Thoren . February 8, 2020.
2. Web site: VES Awards 2013: 'Life of Pi' Wins Top Prize . Carolyn Giardina . February 5, 2013 . . Lynne Segall . February 8, 2020.
3. Web site: 'Gravity' Leads With 8 VES Awards Nominations; 'Pacific Rim' Nabs 6 . The Deadline Team . January 14, 2014 . . . February 8, 2020.
4. Web site: 'Gravity,' 'Frozen' Big VES Awards Winners . Bill Desowitz . February 13, 2014 . . . February 8, 2020.
5. Web site: Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Announced . The Deadline Team . January 13, 2015 . . . February 8, 2020.
6. Web site: Big Hero 6 is the Big Hero with 5 Awards; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Tops the Feature Film Category; Game of Thrones and SSE Lead in Broadcast and Commercial Wins . Bill Desowitz . February 4, 2015 . StudioDaily . Access Intelligence . February 8, 2020.
7. Web site: 'Star Wars,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Peanuts Movie' Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations . Margaret Lenker . January 12, 2016 . . . February 8, 2020.
8. Web site: VES Awards Winners: 'Star Wars' Takes Top Prize . Carolyn Giardina . February 3, 2016 . . Lynne Segall . February 8, 2020.
9. Web site: 'Star Wars,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Peanuts Movie' Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations . RT Staff . January 10, 2017 . . . February 8, 2020.
10. Web site: 'The Jungle Book' Takes Top Visual Effects Society Honors . Carolyn Giardina . February 7, 2017 . . Lynne Segall . February 8, 2020.
11. Web site: VES Awards Nominations: 'Blade Runner 2049' & Latest 'Apes' Lead Film; 'Thrones' Rules All With 11 Noms . Erik Pedersen . January 16, 2018 . . . February 8, 2020.
12. Web site: VES Awards: 'Apes', 'Coco' & 'Thrones' Dominate VFX Nods – Full Winners List . Erik Pedersen . Diane Haithman . February 13, 2018 . . . February 8, 2020.
13. Web site: Visual Effects Society Awards: 'Avengers: 'Infinity War' Leads Feature Noms; 'Black Panther,' 'Mary Poppins Returns' Snubbed . Carolyn Giardina . January 15, 2019 . . Lynne Segall . February 8, 2020.
14. Web site: Visual Effects Society Awards: 'Avengers: Infinity War' Wins Top Prize . Carolyn Giardina . February 5, 2019 . . Lynne Segall . February 8, 2020.
15. Web site: Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Announced . Patrick Hipes . January 7, 2020 . . . February 8, 2020.
16. Web site: 'The Lion King' Wins Top Honor at Visual Effects Society Awards . Carolyn Giardina . January 29, 2020 . . Lynne Segall . February 8, 2020.
17. Web site: 'The Mandalorian' Leads Visual Effects Society Noms, Muddying Oscar Landscape . Giardina, Carolyn . March 2, 2021 . . Lynne Segall . March 31, 2021.
18. Web site: 'Dune' Leads Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations. The Hollywood Reporter. Carolyn. Giardina. January 18, 2022. January 18, 2022.
19. Web site: Tangcay . Jazz. Avatar: The Way of Water Leads Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations . Variety. Penske Media Corporation. January 17, 2023.