Tuesday, January 13, 2026

24th Visual Effects Society (VES) Award Nominations

1. OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
F1: The Movie

Ryan Tudhope
Nikeah Forde
Robert Harrington
Nicolas Chevallier
Keith Alfred Dawson

Jurassic World: Rebirth

David Vickery
Carlos Ciudad
Steve Aplin
Charmaine Chan
Neil Corbould, VES

The Lost Bus

Charlie Noble
Gavin Round
David Zaretti
Russell Bowen
Brandon K. McLaughlin

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Richard Baneham
Peter Litvack
Eric Saindon
Nicky Muir
Steve Ingram

How To Train Your Dragon

Christian Manz
Christopher Raimo
Glen McIntosh
Glenn Melenhorst
Terry Palmer

2. OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
Dongji Rescue

Tim Crosbie
Celeste Chen
Christian Sjöstedt
Lea Benjovitz

A House of Dynamite

Chris Harvey
Dione Wood
Jon Mitchell
Matthew Lane

Warfare

Simon Stanley-Clamp
Kaley Edwards
Andrew Kinnear
Samir Ansari
Ryan Conder

Sinners

Michael Ralla
James Alexander
Nick Marshall
Espen Nordahl
Donnie Dean

After the Hunt

Fabio Cerrito
Virginia Cefaly
Marco Fiorani Parenzi
Maura Manfredi

3. OUTSTANDING ANIMATION IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
The Bad Guys 2

Pierre Perifel
Damon Ross
Matt Baer
Benjamin Willis

KPop Demon Hunters

Joshua Beveridge
Jacky Priddle
Benjamin Hendricks
Clara Chan

Zootopia 2

Gregory Smith
Laurie Au
Marlon West
Shweta Viswanathan

In Your Dreams

Sacha Kapijimpanga
Carey Smith
Nicola Lavender
Steve Pilcher

Elio

Claudia Chung Sanii
Mary Alice Drumm
Harley Jessup
Dave Quirus

4. OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE
Andor; “Who Are You?”

Mohen Leo
TJ Falls
Scott Pritchard
Olivier Beaulieu
Luke Murphy

It: Welcome to Derry; “Winter Fire”

Daryl Sawchuk
Steve Dellerson
Pier Lefebvre
Steven Tether
Darcy Callaghan

The Last of Us; “Through the Valley”

Alex Wang
Fiona Campbell Westgate
Nick Epstein
Philip Engström
Joel Whist

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age; “The Big Freeze”

Russell Dodgson
Tracey Gibbons
Francois Dumoulin
Gavin McKenzie

Stranger Things; “Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up”

Betsy Paterson
Tessa Roehl
Michael Maher Jr.
Martin Hill

5. OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE
Man vs Baby; “Chapter One”

Rob Duncan
Ashlee Turner
Jean-Nicolas Costa
Adrian Eugene Daniel Williams

The Residence; “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Seth Hill
Tesa Kubicek
John Nelson
Gabriel Vargas

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon; “Costa Da Morte”

Jao M’Changama
Justine Paynat-Sautivet
Sébastien Voisin
Xavier Allard
Pau Costa Moeller

Severance; “Hello, Ms. Cobel”

Eric Leven
Sean Findley
Brian Holligan
Radost Ridlen

Death By Lightning; “The Man from Ohio”

Rainer Gombos
Steve Kullback
Marko Ljubez
David Ramos

6. OUTSTANDING VISUAL ARTS IN A REAL-TIME PROJECT
Ghost of Yōtei

Jason Connell
Matt Vainio
Joanna Wang
Jasmin Patry

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Hideo Kojima
Yoji Shinkawa
Shota Hirasawa

Doom: The Dark Ages

Todd Boyce
Andrew Willis
Ian Malerich
Derek Best

South of Midnight

Ian Mac Gregor
Yasmeen Leclerc
Petro Kosariekov
Connor Bugni

Battlefield 6

Chris Bayol
Sean Tomek
Skye White
Jacob Bergman

7. OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A COMMERCIAL
Coors Light; “Slow Monday”

Bruno Fukumothi
Ella Glazer
David Fleet
Martino Madeddu

BMW; “Heart of Joy | Meet Okto the Octopus”

Tom Raynor
Helen Tang
Jack Harris
Alex Kulikov

Virgin Media; “Trunk Trucker”

Sebastian Caldwell
Larisa Covaciu
Ben Cronin
Alex Grey

Columbia Sportswear; “Engineered for Whatever”

Kamen Markov
Alexia Paterson
David Lochhead
Henrique Campanha

Battlefield 6; “It’s Good to Be Back”

Michael Ralla
James Alexander
Brian Creasey
Luca Pelegatta

8. OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SPECIAL VENUE PROJECT
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

Ben Grossmann
Tamara Watts Kent
Dr. Irfan Essa
Matt Dougan
Glenn Derry

Zootopia: Better Zoogether!

Rich Enders
Kirk Bodyfelt
Darin Hollings
Darren Simpson

Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment

Alan Woods
Maximilian McNair MacEwan
Jason Fox
Iris Chailloux

Disney Tales of Magic

Tim Lutkin
Patrick Aigouy
Adrien Mourey
Lydia Caplan

Stranger Things: Escape the Dark

Julien Héry
Antoine Sitruk
Simon Lecavalier
Martin Hesselink

9. OUTSTANDING CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
A Minecraft Movie; Queen Malgosha

Kevin Estey
Fabio Leporelli
Matteo Stirati
Nick Grace

Lilo & Stitch; Stitch

Matthew Shumway
Claus Pedersen
Xiying Zhai
Enrique Mateo-Sagasta

Superman; Krypto the Superdog

Loic Mireault
Martine Chartrand
Marianne Morency
Matthias Schoenegger

Avatar: Fire and Ash; Varang: Leader of the Ash Clan

Stephen Clee
Stuart Adcock
Keven Norris
Joseph Kim

10. OUTSTANDING CHARACTER IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
Elio; Ooooo the Liquid Supercomputer

Catherine Luo
Anna-Christine Lykkegaard
Ferdi Scheepers
Julian Teo

Elio; Glordon

Marco Burbano
Edgar Rodriguez
Ben Rush
Patrick Yu Wang

Zootopia 2; Gary De’Snake

Adam Green
Jennifer Stratton
Christoffer Pedersen
Jesse Erickson

KPop Demon Hunters; Rumi

Sophia (Seung Hee) Lee
Andrea Centeno
Marc Souliere
Joshua Beveridge

11. OUTSTANDING CHARACTER IN AN EPISODIC, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
It: Welcome to Derry; “The Thing in the Dark;” The Pickle Monster

Philip Harris-Genois
Pierric Danjou
Chloe Ostiguy
Jonathan Bourdua

It: Welcome to Derry; “Winter Fire;” Pennywise

Théo Perronard
Yan Morin-Dubuisson
Yan Detang
Jonathan Fleming-Bock

Stranger Things; “Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up;” Mindflayer

James Moore
Layne Howe
Shawn Warawa
Yoshihiro Harimoto

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age; Female Smilodon

Alvise Avati
Marc-André Coulombe
Youen Leclerc
Andrea De Martis

12. OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
Tron: Ares; Dillinger’s Grid City

Jared Michael
Noor Valibhoy
Cody Gramstad
Stefan Litterini

The Lost Bus; The Wildfires of Roe Road

Jamie Haydock
Francesco Ferraresi
Sergei Konorev
Frederick Vallee

Avatar: Fire and Ash; Bridgehead Industrial City

Gianluca Pizzaia
Steve Bevins
Dziga Kaiser
Zsolt Máté

The Lost Bus; Feather River Canyon by the Pulga Bridge

David Schulz
Mareike Loges
Björn Markgraf
Philipp Hafellner

The Gorge; The Bodyweb

Daniel James Cox
Yosuke Inomata
Clint Rea
Gabriel Pires

13. OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
Zootopia 2; Marsh Market

Limei Z. Hshieh
Alexander Nicholas Whang
Joshua Fry
Ryan DeYoung

Elio; The Communiverse

Steve Arguello
Christopher M. Burrows
Andy Lin
Laura Murphy

KPop Demon Hunters; Seoul

Rafael Lescano
Gunsik Kim
Tyquane Wright
Hee-Chel Nam

The Bad Guys 2; Cairo City

John J. Lee
Greg Hettinger
Mikael Genachte-Le Bail
Mayumi Shimokawa

14. OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN AN EPISODIC, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
Foundation; “A Song for the End of Everything;” Clarion Station

Sylvain Lesaint
Ilyes Boutemeur
Blake Dewoody
Benjamin Rojek

Andor; “Welcome to the Rebellion;” The Senate District

John O’Connell
Falk Boje
Hasan Ilhan
Kevin George

The Last of Us; Post-Apocalyptic Seattle

Romain Simonnet
Abraham Ibanez
David Desplat
Minguk Lee

The Residence; “Dial M for Murder;” The White House Exterior

Gabriel Vargas
Eric Schoellnast
Andrew Wilkins
Omer Gurkan

15. OUTSTANDING CG CINEMATOGRAPHY
Zootopia 2

Tyler Kupferer
Daniel Rice
Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Steve Deane
AJ Briones
Zachary Brake
Andrew Moffett

Tron: Ares

Jhon Alvarado
Michael Beaulieu
Jayden Beveridge
Hayley Kim

KPop Demon Hunters

Benjamin Hendricks
Gary H. Lee
Randolph Lizarda
Linh Mai Nguyen Chan

16. OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT
Mickey 17; The Niflheim Spaceship

Bikas Panigrahi
Nikolai Razuev
Ajinkya Nitin Phokmare
Manoj Vijay Kamble

Wicked: For Good; Bison

Marco Chau
Giorgio Pennisi
Sowmya Ramakumar
Balazs Meszaros

Avatar: Fire and Ash; The Windtraders’ Gondola

Michael Smale
Sam Sharplin
Joe W. Churchill
Jacqi Dillon

Superman; The Fortress of Solitude

Crystal Bretz
Martin Pelissier
Klaudio Ladavac
Conner Wessinger

17. OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
Avatar: Fire and Ash; Simulating Pandora

Nicholas Illingworth
Sarah C. Farmer
James Robinson
Ryan Bowden

Superman; Metropolis City Destruction

Rick Hankins
Marcel Kern
Eric Hollands
Masoud Aziminajjar

The Lost Bus; Escape from Hell

Billy Copley
Mathieu Chardonnet
Chetan Patkar
David Schott

Together

Darcy George
Andrew Dunkerley
Ray Leung
Steve Oakley

18. OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
In Your Dreams

Stephanie McNair
Dmitiry Kolesnik
Stephen Paschke
David Sellares

The Bad Guys 2

Michael Losure
Landon Gray
Zachary Glynn
Steve Avoujageli

Zootopia 2

Sujil Sukumaran
Stuart Griese
Zoran Stojanoski
Paul Carman

KPop Demon Hunters

Filippo Maccari
Nikolaos Finizio
Daniel La Chapelle
Srdjan Milosevic

19. OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
Battlefield 6

Björn Åkerstedt
Anders Egleus
Kasra Kalami
Craig Moroney

The Last of Us; “Through the Valley;” The Infected Horde

Duarte Victorino
Claudio Gonzalez
Andre Castelao
Igor Bondar

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age; The Big Freeze

Edward Ferrysienanda
Kevin Christensen
Guy Schuleman
Kevin Tarpinian

Stranger Things; “Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up;” Assault on the Mindflayer

Michael Chrobak
Brandon James Fleet
Yasunobu Arahori
Hoi Ying Fung

20. OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE
Avatar: Fire and Ash; Bridgehead Industrial City

Ziad Shureih
Stefano Oggeri
Jaume Creus Costabella
Hugo Debat-Burkarth

F1: The Movie; Modern Race and POV Footage

Hugo Gauvreau
Chris Davies
Raushan Raj
Amaury Rospars

Superman; Fights and Metropolis City Destruction

Can Chang
Nicolas Caillier
Bryan Smeall
Elona Musha

Avatar: Fire and Ash; The Wind Traders, Bridgehead, Rivers and Ocean

Alex Klaricich
Gianfranco Sgura
Brad Floyd
Ari Ross

21. OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN AN EPISODE
The Residence; “Pilot”

Spencer Hecox
Gunnar Heiss
Alexander Greenberg
Eric Schoellnast

Stranger Things; “Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up;” The Abyss and Vecna’s Face

Ben Roberts
Rachel E. Herbert
Don Bradford
Ken Lam

The Last of Us; “Through the Valley;” A Storm of Ice, Fire and Flesh

Tobias Wiesner
Mark Julien
Owen Longstaff
Brendan Naylor

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age

Puff Pisanwalerd
Jean-Baptiste Noyau
Marion Nove-Josserand
Sue Nelson

22. OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A COMMERCIAL
Disney; “Best Christmas Ever”

Hudson Martins
Luke Warpus
Jinhui Wang
Alex Miller

BMW; “Heart of Joy | Meet Okto the Octopus”

Alex Kulikov
Jack Harris
Adam Chabane
Nicola Borsari

Virgin Media; “Trunk Trucker”

Alex Grey
Sebastian Caldwell
Nicola Borsari
Giacomo Cavaletti

Genesis; “No Old Ideas”

Greg McKneally
Christian Block
Alberto Pizzocchero
Alessandro Granella

23. OUTSTANDING SPECIAL (PRACTICAL) EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL PROJECT
Gen V; “Bags”

Hudson Kenny
Curtis Carlson
John Koyama
Bruno Larizza

Andor; “Who Are You?”

Luke Murphy
Dean Ford
Jody Eltham
Darrell Guyon

24. EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD
Win or Lose; Detached Facial Features
David Munier
Ana Gabriela Lacaze
Jonathan Page
Anna-Christine Lykkegaard

Mickey 17; REVIZE
John Bastian
Ben Ward
Thomas Rowntree
Robert Beveridge

Avatar: Fire and Ash; BodyOpt
Christoph Sprenger
Tobias Mack
Florian Fernandez
Niall Ryan 

Elio; Real-Time High Fidelity Animation System Using Signed Distance Functions
Andrew Butts
Trent Crow
Anna-Christine Lykkegaard
Catherine Luo

Avatar: Fire and Ash; Kora Fire Toolset

Alexey Dmitrievich Stomakhin
John Edholm
Murali Ramachari
Aleksandr Isakov

25. OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A STUDENT PROJECT
Au Delà des Mots

Antoine Barbannaud
Leandro Leijnen
Timothé Vergught
Mathis De Sauvecanne

Flying From War

Ciara Borgards
 
Two Kings

Eliot Hervier Blondel
Mathieu Keraudran
Adrian Delmotte
Jonas Lopez Del Castillo

Azimuth

Thomas Teisseire
Cassandre Cinier
Martin Bluy
Mathis Giraudeau

A Sparrow’s Song

Tobias Eckerlin
Vincent Maurer
Elias Weber
Lilli-Luisa Heckmann

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