The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced their nominations for the 15th Annual VES Awards, which celebrate “outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials and video games and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life.”
Game of Thrones has received the most nominations, scoring 11 in total (8 of which involve “Battle of the Bastards”) across 24 categories. Other top contenders include Doctor Strange the The Jungle Book.
“The Battle of the Bastards” was nominated twice for Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project, once for the overall episode and once for Meereen City’s appearance. Episode 9 was also nominated for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode as well as Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project.
Drogon in “Battle of the Bastards” and the “emaciated dragon” in “Home” were both nominated for Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode or Real-Time Project against Omar in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and the titular creatures of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Meereen City in “Battle of the Bastards” and the Citadel in “The Winds of Winter” are also competing against each other for Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project.
Finally, Meereen City in “Battle of the Bastards,” Retaking Winterfell in “Battle of the Bastards” and Land of Always Winter in “The Door” are each nominated for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode, leaving Black Sails’ episode XX the only non-Game of Thrones contender in that category. The full list of nominees is available here.
The 15th Annual VES Awards ceremony will be held on February 7, 2017 in Beverly Hills.
KING IN THE NORTH!!!
Last night I watched the battle of Meereen for about the 500th time. It never gets old for me. So well done… I love the cut from the flying head to Daenerys and the dragons swooping down towards the ships!
I have so much catching up to do on this site.
One thing that I think everyone will praise the show for is it’s great visual effects. Some of the things they do on this show look better than CGI that’s used in films (see Doomsday in Batman VS Superman). Not all of the time sure but most of the time.
Well, sorry GoT but my support goes to Black Sails for that one category !
Everyone should watch Black Sails, it’s so amazing !
The library at the Citadel is one of my favorites! Glad it was nominated.
Arkash,
I agree that Black Sails is an often-overlooked and underrated show.
The remake of Peter Cushing in Rogue 1 has to win for animated character. It’s incredible and slightly disturbing too.