16th Annual VES Awards: The Winners
The winners for the 16th Annual VES Awards have just been announced!
Rodeo FX Wins Outstanding Effects Simulations at 16th VES Awards
Montreal VFX Studio Recognized for Work on Seventh Season of Game of Thrones
This is how dinosaurs inspired ‘Lord of the Rings’ Gollum
Turns out, dinosaurs led to the creation of Gollum in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
Why don’t Oscar voters go bananas for ‘Planet of the Apes’ movies like Visual Effects Society does?
The Visual Effects Society just awarded its third trophy to the “Planet of the Apes” franchise in the prestige category of Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture, this time for “War for the Planet of the Apes.”
2018 Visual Effects Society Awards: ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ wins on way to Oscars
“War for the Planets of the Apes”, which is predicted to win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, defeated its four rivals — “Blade Runner 2049,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Kong: Skull Island” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” — at the VES Awards on Feb....
2018 Visual Effects Society Awards preview: Oscar frontrunner ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ v. ‘Blade Runner 2049’
War for the Planets of the Apes”, which is predicted to win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, will face off first against its four rivals — “Blade Runner 2049,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Kong: Skull Island” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” — at the VES Awards...
Game of Thrones, Blade Runner, Planet of the Apes Clean Up at Visual Effects Awards
With a surprise guest hosting spot by Mark Hamill, you might think that Star Wars: The Last Jedi was one of the big winners of the Visual Effects Society Awards.
‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Apes’ and Samsung sweep VFX awards
Digital apes, skeletons and dragons wowed the Visual Effects Society awards.
Visual Effects Awards: Apes, Coco and Thrones sweep. And Mark Hamill!
War for Planet of the Apes, Coco, and Games of Thrones swept the film and TV award categories at the Visual Effects Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.
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