8th Visual Effects Society Awards
{{Short description|Award for the best visual effects in film and television}}
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8th Visual Effects Society Awards
February 10, 2010
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Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture:
The 8th Visual Effects Society Awards, given on February 10, 2010 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/ayear/8th-annual-ves-awards|title=8th Annual VES Awards|work=visual effects society|access-date=December 22, 2017}}
Winners and nominees
(winners in bold)
=Honorary Awards=
=Film=
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture |
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Avatar – Joe Letteri, Joyce Cox, Eileen Moran, Richard Baneham
| valign="top" | Sherlock Holmes – Jonathan Fawkner, Chas Jarrett, David Vickery, Dan Barrow
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
!style="width=50%"|Best Single Visual Effect of the Year |
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Up – Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera, Steve May, Gary Bruins
| valign="top" | Avatar - Neytiri Drinking – Joe Letteri, Joyce Cox, Eileen Moran, Thelvin Cabezas
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture |
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Avatar - Neytiri – Joe Letteri, Andrew R. Jones, Jeff Unay, Zoe Saldana
| valign="top" | Up – Carl – Ed Asner, Ron Zorman, Brian Tindall, Carmen Ngai
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture |
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Avatar - Samson/Home Tree/ Floating Mountains / Ampsuit – Simon Cheung, Paul Jenness, John Stevenson-Galvin, Rainer Zoetti
| valign="top" | Avatar - Jungle/Biolume – Eric Saindon, Shadi Almassizadeh, Dan Cox, Ula Rademeyer
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture |
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District 9 – Shervin Shogian, Hamish Schumacher, Janeen Elliott, Simon Hughes
| valign="top" | Up – Jason Johnston, Alexis Angelidis, Jon Reisch, Eric Froemling
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=Television=
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program |
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Battlestar Galactica - Season 4, Ep. 421 "Daybreak" – Michael Gibson, Gary Hutzel, Jesse Toves, Dave Morton
| valign="top" | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Ep 1001 "Opening Sequence" – Rik Shorten, Sabrina Arnold, Steve Meyer, Derek Smith
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special |
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Audi - Intelligently Combined – Jay Barton, Rafael F. Colon, Ronald Herbst, Chris Fieldhouse
| valign="top" | Disney Prep and Landing - Gadgets, Gloves and other Garish Gizmos – Dorothy McKim, Scott Kersavage, David Hutchins, Kee Suong
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Animated Character in a Broadcast Program or Commercial
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Broadcast Program or Commercial |
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AMF - The Caterpillar – Robert Sethi, Jamie O'Hara, Becky Porter, Steve Beck
| valign="top" | Kaiser Permanente - Emerald City – Ben Walker, David Woodland, Kim Taylor, Ben Walsh |
| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program or Commercial |
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V - Pilot "Atrium and Ship Interiors" – Chris Zapara, Chris Irving, David Morton, Trevor Adams
| valign="top" | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Ep 1001 Opening Sequence – Derek Smith, Christina Spring, Steve Meyer, Zach Zaubi
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=Other categories=
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Real Time Visuals in a Video Game
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Video Game Trailer |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Gulag Extraction – Mark Rubin, Richard Kriegler, Robert Gaines, David Johnson
| valign="top" | Halo 3: ODST - The Life – Robert Moggach, Ryan Meredith, Jens Zalzala, Michael Pardee
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| style="width=50%"|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
!style="width=50%"|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project |
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Dance of the Dragons – Derry Frost, Michael Morreale
| valign="top" | They Will Come to Town – Thilo Ewers
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References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.visualeffectssociety.com Visual Effects Society]
{{Visual Effects Society Awards}}