New Animation Category Introduced for 2007 Visual Effects Society Awards
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Visual Effects Society’s Sixth Annual Awards Returns To The Kodak Theatre Ballroom
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VES Fest Announces New Panel, “Vfx Guilty Pleasures,” Featuring Joe Dante
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The Visual Effects Society Unveils “50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films Of All Time”
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Visual Effects Society Announces VES Festival of Visual Effects 2007, June 8-10 At The Writer’s Guild Theater
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‘Pirates’ plunders visual f/x awards
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” raided the Visual Effects Society Awards Sunday night and sailed off with six wins, including the two top awards: outstanding visual effects in a visual-effects-driven picture and single visual effect of...
Pirates Sweeps VES Awards
As expected, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest plundered a lot of gold at the Visual Effects Society’s 5th annual VES Awards. Held Sunday night at the Kodak Theater Ballroom in Hollywood, the event saw George Lucas present the lifetime achievement...
Dead Man’s Chest Goes Six for Six at VES Awards
Disney’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST was the big winner for Industrial Light & Magic at the 5th Annual VES Awards, winning in all six categories for which it was nominated, including Outstanding Visual Effects, Saturday night (Feb. 11, 2007) at the...
Feeney honored with Gordon E. Sawyer award
The film biz’s tech community saluted an important environmental initiative and heard the promise of major changes to come Saturday night at the Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards at the Beverly Wilshire. Maggie Gyllenhaal hosted, and the thesp...
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