The 8th Visual Effects Society Awards, given in Los Angeles on 10 February 2010, honored the best visual effects in film and television of 2009. The show was hosted by Sam Rubin and broadcast, in an edited form, by the ReelzChannel on March 5, 2010.
Winners and nominees
(winners in bold)
Lifetime Achievement Award:
James Cameron
George Melies Award for Pioneering:
Dr. Ed Catmull
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture:
2012
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture:
Angels & Demons
The Box
Invictus
The Road
Sherlock Holmes
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture:
9
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Up
Best Single Visual Effect of the Year:
2012 - Escape from L.A.
Avatar - Neytiri Drinking
Avatar - Quarich's Escape
Knowing - Plane Crash
Terminator Salvation - VLA Escape
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture:
Avatar - Neytiri
District 9 - Christopher Johnson
G-Force - Bucky
Watchmen - Doctor Manhattan
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture:
Coraline - Coraline
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Buck
Monsters vs. Aliens - B.O.B.
Up – Carl
Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture:
Avatar
Coraline
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Terminator Salvation
Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture:
2012 - Los Angeles Destruction
Avatar - Floating Mountains
Avatar - Jungle/Biolume
Avatar - Willow Glade
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture:
Avatar
District 9
Sherlock Holmes
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series:
Battlestar Galactica - Season 4, Ep. 421 "Daybreak"
Defying Gravity - Pilot
Fringe - Ep. 206, "Earthling"
Stargate Universe - Air
V - Pilot
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Ep 1001 "Opening Sequence"
FlashForward - No More Good Days
Kings - Ep. 001 "Goliath"
Krupp-eine Deutsche Familie - Krupp
Lost - The Incident Part 1 & 2
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial:
AMF - The Caterpillar
Audi - Intelligently Combined
Kerry Lowlow - Mouse
Pepsi - The Flight of the Penguin
Plane Stupid - Polar Bears
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special:
Alice - Night 2
Ben 10: Alien Swarm - Montage
Disney Prep and Landing - Gadgets, Gloves and other Garish Gizmos
Infestation
Skellig
Outstanding Animated Character in a Broadcast Program or Commercial:
AMF - The Caterpillar
Disney Prep and Landing - Wayne
Evian - Skating Babies
Pepsi - Penguin - "The Flight of the Penguin"
Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Broadcast Program or Commercial:
Kaiser Permanente - Emerald City
Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial:
AMC Theatres/Coke - Magic Chairs
Assassin's Creed: Lineage - Ep. 1 "Duke of Milan Assassination"
FlashForward - Pilot "Freeway Overpass"
V - Pilot "Atrium and Ship Interiors"
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program or Commercial:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Ep 1001 Opening Sequence
Kerry Lowlow - "Mouse" Overall
Pepsi - The Flight of the Penguin
Porsche - Family Tree
Outstanding Real Time Visuals in a Video Game:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Gulag Extraction
Fight Night Round 4 - Gameplay
Need for Speed: Shift - World Sequence
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Video Game Trailer:
DJ Hero
Halo 3: ODST - The Life
Mass Effect 2
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project:
Beyond all Boundaries
Dance of the Dragons
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project:
The Full Moon Mystery
Motherland
They Will Come to Town
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