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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.

‘Game of Thrones’ wins five awards; ‘Coco,’ ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ win four awards each; Samsung sweeps all three commercials categories; and ‘Blade Runner 2049’ wins a pair.

On Tuesday, February 13th, the Visual Effects Society held the 16th Annual VES Awards recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues.

The wizardly Joe Letteri, busy with all those 'Avatar' sequels, will be honored with the Visual Effects Society's George Melies Award on Tuesday.

With War for the Planet of the Apes, Dan Lemmon, VFX supervisor at Weta Digital, received his fourth Oscar nomination.

Matt Reeves' "Apes" finale eyes the Oscar after beating "Blade Runner 2049" Tuesday night at the 16th VES Awards.

Visual Effects Society gives “Apes” the win in a category that also includes the other four Oscar VFX nominees

The Visual Effects Society presented is 16th VES Awards in LA last night, honoring the year’s best in digital wizardry across a variety of formats in 24 categories.

Winners were announced tonight for the 16th annual VES Awards during a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The awards are highly craft-specific, honoring specific components of visual effects artistry rather than the overall films themselves.

Ostriches, apes, dragons and a Land of the Dead tour guide took top honors at last night’s 16th Annual Visual Effects Society awards presentation.

'Blade Runner 2049' and 'War for the Planet of the Apes' lead the feature competition with seven nominations apiece.

'War' won four categories including the top prize for outstanding VFX in a photoreal feature. Is an Oscar next?