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Roland Emmerich, the filmmaker behind Independence Day, Midway, 2012, White House Down, and Stargate, will be honored with the VES Visionary Award by the Visual Effect Society. The German-born director-producer-screenwriter will be feted on January 29 at the 18th Annual VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Bestowed…

The Visual Effects Society is gettin’ in toon for its 18th annual VES Awards. The group said today that it has expanded the number of categories open to animation projects for its 2020 trophy show and also is launching a new category: Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal Project. Animation projects…

Martin Scorsese will need to clear a little more space in his crowded trophy case. The Oscar winner is set to receive the Visual Effect Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award during its 18th annual VES Awards in January. "Martin Scorsese is one of the most influential filmmakers in modern history and has made an…

Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick and Stan Lee are the 2019 inductees into the Visual Effects Society Hall of Fame for their towering contributions to screen spectacle and the pursuit of wondrous, effects-enhanced storytelling. The VES Hall of Fame recognizes the achievements of “a select group of professionals and…

What master do you serve? Avengers: Infinity War took the VES Awards’ marquee prize for Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature tonight at the Beverly Hilton. The 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and third in the multibillion-dollar Avengers series also won three other trophies en route to front-runner status…

The 17th annual VES Awards are being handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, and Deadline will be live-blogging the affair and updating the winners list live. Patton Oswalt is hosting the Visual Effects Society’s gala, which celebrates the best VFX artistry and innovation in film, animation, TV…

The Visual Effects Society has chosen Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri to receive the group’s VES Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019. It will be presented as part of the 17th annual VES Awards on February 5 at the Beverly Hilton. The honor, bestowed by the VES board of directors, “recognizes an outstanding body of…

Winter is coming — tomorrow, in fact — and the duo behind HBO’s Game of Thrones is getting their due from the Visual Effects Society. The VFX group said today that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will receive its VES Award for Creative Excellence at its 2019 trophy show. VES says the honor “recognizes individuals who…

The Visual Effects Society has selected writer-producer-director and Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan with its VES Visionary Award, to be bestowed at the 17th annual VES Awards on February 5 at the Beverly Hilton. Nolan joins his brother and oft-collaborator Christopher Nolan, who was honored with the same award in…

Star Trek patriarch Gene Roddenberry, Dynamation VFX pioneer Ray Harryhausen and film poster/title sequence legend Saul Bass are among the Visual Effect Society’s 2018 Hall of Fame class, the guild said today. It also named its other career honorees, including Gene Kozicki (Founders Award) and Jonathan Erland…

The Visual Effects Society has adopted a code of conduct aimed at "ensuring that all members are treated with respect, dignity and inclusion." The 3,800-member honor society's board of directors unanimously ratified the new code (read it <a…

A film whose battles left hordes of primates dead and another that celebrates the Day of the Dead were the big winners at tonight’s 16th annual VES Awards. Fox’s War for the Planet of the Apes took four prizes including the marquee Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. And Disney/Pixar’s Oscar…