Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest dominated Sunday's fifth annual Visual Effects Society awards, winning six trophies including the top prize for outstanding visual effects in a visual effects-driven film.
Pirates also picked up prizes for single visual effect of the year, created environment in a live-action film, compositing in a film, models and miniatures in a film and animated character in a live-action film.
In the top category, Pirates bested competition from Charlotte's Web and The Fountain. While the nominees do not mirror this year's Academy Award noms for VFX -- Pirates, Superman Returns and Poseidon -- it should be noted that in three of the past four years the winner of the VES' top prize did go on to win the Oscar. The exception was in 2004 when the VES recognized "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and the Academy honored Spider-Man 2.
An Oscar win for Pirates would end a dry spell for pioneering VFX house Industrial Light + Magic. The company last brought home a VFX Academy Award when Forrest Gump won the category in 1994. In recent years, the category has been competitive with the emergence of such companies as Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks and WETA Digital.
ILM visual effects supervisor John Knoll -- who was honored with the Pirates VES win for VFX along with Jill Brooks, Hal Hickel and Charlie Gibson -- said that central to the success of the VFX in Pirates was the performance of the CG Davy Jones and crew.
Pirates also picked up prizes for single visual effect of the year, created environment in a live-action film, compositing in a film, models and miniatures in a film and animated character in a live-action film.
In the top category, Pirates bested competition from Charlotte's Web and The Fountain. While the nominees do not mirror this year's Academy Award noms for VFX -- Pirates, Superman Returns and Poseidon -- it should be noted that in three of the past four years the winner of the VES' top prize did go on to win the Oscar. The exception was in 2004 when the VES recognized "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and the Academy honored Spider-Man 2.
An Oscar win for Pirates would end a dry spell for pioneering VFX house Industrial Light + Magic. The company last brought home a VFX Academy Award when Forrest Gump won the category in 1994. In recent years, the category has been competitive with the emergence of such companies as Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks and WETA Digital.
ILM visual effects supervisor John Knoll -- who was honored with the Pirates VES win for VFX along with Jill Brooks, Hal Hickel and Charlie Gibson -- said that central to the success of the VFX in Pirates was the performance of the CG Davy Jones and crew.
- 2/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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