“Avengers: Infinity War” leads all films in nominations for the Visual Effects Society’s 17th Annual VES Awards, which were announced on Tuesday.
The Marvel movie received six nominations, one more than “Ready Player One” and “Incredibles 2.”
In Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature, the VES category that corresponds most closely to the Oscars’ Best Visual Effects category, the nominees were “Avengers,” “Ready Player One,” “Christopher Robin,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and “Welcome to Marwen.”
“Incredibles 2” led all animated films, with “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” each receiving four nominations to trail “Incredibles” by one.
Other films with multiple nominations include “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” with three and “First Man” and “Aquaman” with two each.
Two of the 10 films that are on the Oscars short list in the Best Visual Effects category – “Black Panther” and “Mary Poppins” – did not receive any VES nominations. The omission may be particularly noteworthy for “Black Panther,” since one of the “Avengers” nominations is for the effects simulation in its creation of Wakanda, the fictional African country that first appeared in “Black Panther.”
In the television categories, “Lost in Space” led all shows with six nominations, while “Altered Carbon,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Cycles” received three and “The Deuce” and “The Man in the High Castle” received two.
Last year, VES’ Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature category was an exact match for the Oscars’ visual-effects nominees, though the winner was not the same: “War for the Planet of the Apes” took the VES Award, while “Blade Runner 2049” won the Oscar. It was the first time the two categories have matched exactly since the Oscars’ VFX category was expanded to five nominees in 2010.
Over the first 16 years of the VES Awards, almost 75 percent of the Oscar nominees have first been nominated in that category by the VES.
Winners will be announced at the VES Awards show on Feb. 5 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Also on that show, which will be hosted by Patton Oswalt, the VES Visionary Award will be presented to “Westworld” creator Jonathan Nolan, and the VES Award for Creative Excellence will go to “Game of Thrones” producers-writers-directors David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
For more information, including the names of individual nominees, go to the VES website.
The VES Awards nominees:
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“Christopher Robin”
“Ready Player One”
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”
“Welcome to Marwen”
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
“12 Strong”
“Bird Box”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“First Man”
“Outlaw King”
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”
“Incredibles 2”
“Isle of Dogs”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
“Altered Carbon”: “Out of the Past”
“Krypton”: “The Phantom Zone”
“Lost in Space”: “Danger, Will Robinson”
“The Terror”: “Go For Broke”
“Westworld”: “The Passenger”
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”: Pilot
“The Alienist”: “The Boy on the Bridge”
“The Deuce”: “We’re All Beasts”
“The First”: “Near and Far”
“The Handmaid’s Tale”: “June”
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project
“Age of Sail”
“Cycles”
“Dr Grordbort’s Invaders”
“God of War”
“Marvel’s Spider-Man”
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
“Beyond Good & Evil 2”
John Lewis: “The Boy and the Piano”
McDonald’s: “#ReindeerReady”
U.S. Marine Corps: “A Nation’s Call”
Volkswagen: “Born Confident”
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
“Beautiful Hunan”: “Flight of the Phoenix”
“Childish Gambino’s Pharos”
“DreamWorks Theatre Presents Kung Fu Panda”
“Osheaga Music and Arts Festival”
“Pearl Quest”
Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature
“Avengers: Infinity War”: Thanos
“Christopher Robin”: Tigger
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”: Indoraptor
“Ready Player One”: Art3mis
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”: The Grinch
“Incredibles 2”: Helen Parr
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”: Ralphzilla
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”: Miles Morales
Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode or Real-Time Project
“Cycles”: Rae
“Lost in Space”: Humanoid
“Nightflyers: All That We Have Found”: Eris
“Spider-Man”: Doc Ock
Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial
McDonald’s: Bobbi the Reindeer
“Overkill’s The Walking Dead”: Maya
Peta; “Best Friend”: Lucky
Volkswagen: “Born Confident”: Bam
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
“Ant-Man and the Wasp”: Journey to the Quantum Realm
“Aquaman”: Atlantis
“Ready Player One”: The Shining, Overlook Hotel
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”: Vandor Planet
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”: Whoville
“Incredibles 2”: Parr House
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”: Social Media District
“Spider-Man; Into the Spider-Verse”: Graphic New York City
Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project
“Cycles”: The House
“Lost in Space”: Pilot: Impact Area
“The Deuce”: 42nd St
“The Handmaid’s Tale”: “June”: Fenway Park
“The Man in the High Castle”: Reichsmarschall Ceremony
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project
“Aquaman”: Third Act Battle
“Echo”: Time Displacement
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”: Gyrosphere Escape
“Ready Player One”: New York Race
“Welcome to Marwen”: Town of Marwen
Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project
“Avengers: Infinity War”: Nidavellir Forge Megastructure
“Incredibles 2”: Underminer Vehicle
“Mortal Engines”: London
“Ready Player One”: DeLorean DMC-12
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”: Millennium Falcon
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
“Avengers: Infinity War”: Titan
“Avengers: Infinity War”: Wakanda
“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”
“Venom”
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”: Snow, Clouds and Smoke
“Incredibles 2”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”: Virus Infection & Destruction
“Smallfoot”
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project
“Altered Carbon”
“Lost in Space”: “Jupiter is Falling”
“Lost in Space”: “The Get Away”
“The Man in the High Castle”: Statue of Liberty Destruction
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
“Avengers: Infinity War”: Titan
“First Man”
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
“Welcome to Marwen”
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode
“Altered Carbon”
“The Handmaid’s Tale”: “June”
“Lost in Space”: “Impact”: Crash Site Rescue
“Silicon Valley”: “Artificial Emotional Intelligence”: Fiona
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Commercial
Apple: “Unlock”
Apple: “Welcome Home”
Genesis: “G90 Facelift”
John Lewis: “The Boy and the Piano”
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project
“Chocolate Man”
“Proxima-b”
“Ratatoskr”
“Terra Nova”