VES Winners

[Couch PotatoParticipant Joined: Nov 10th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 102 View Predictions]

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These are the winners from the Visual Effects Awards. Star Wars: The Force Awakens wins four including the top prize: Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. The Revenant won three including Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal feature. The Good Dinosaur won Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature. The full list: http://deadline.com/2016/02/ves-award-winners-2016-star-wars-the-force-awakens-1201695364/

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[PJ EdwardsParticipant Joined: Jun 2nd, 2011 Topics: 9 Posts: 2369 View Predictions]

#214516

Dad gum it! Now I might have to predict Flop Wars to win an Oscar now!?

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[TeridaxParticipant Joined: Dec 12th, 2014 Topics: 78 Posts: 11149 View Predictions]

#214517

Dad gum it! Now I might have to predict Flop Wars to win an Oscar now!?

“Flop Wars” I call it “Disney Wars: The Failed Awakening”, personally. You JackO, have just become my favorite person on this entire website! 😉

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[TeridaxParticipant Joined: Dec 12th, 2014 Topics: 78 Posts: 11149 View Predictions]

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Oh, and if Hugo can beat VES winner Rise of the Planet of the Apes, or if last year’s Interstellar can beat VES winner Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Mad Max: Fury Road should still be a lock to win the Best Visual Effects Oscar being a BP nominee. Benjamin Button, and every movie since then except for Interstellar has won that Oscar with a corrosponding Best Picture nomination. Even Interstellar, with its previous Bafta win in that category and Nolan’s Direction, definitely felt the most “prestige” of the 5 nominees.

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[Emil PetrovParticipant Joined: Jun 12th, 2011 Topics: 60 Posts: 336 View Predictions]

#214519

I myself am worried that The Revenant might actually win the Oscar. That bear attack scene just won them 3 VES Awards. 

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[Michael NorrisParticipant Joined: Jan 24th, 2013 Topics: 3 Posts: 285 View Predictions]

#214520

I still think it’s Mad Max. I think the effects were one of the most notable aspects of one of the best movies of the year. It’s like with Gravity. The visuals are one of the main sources of the movie’s acclaim.

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[Moviebuff22Participant Joined: Jan 17th, 2016 Topics: 8 Posts: 725 View Predictions]

#214521

I’m glad other people on this forum agree that Star Wars was awful

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[GusCruzParticipant Joined: Feb 26th, 2012 Topics: 53 Posts: 13325 View Predictions]

#214522

Mad Max also won an award at this guild, despite the original poster failing to mention that

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[VRCParticipant Joined: Jan 27th, 2016 Topics: 1 Posts: 27 View Predictions]

#214523

Mad Max also won an award at this guild, despite the original poster failing to mention that

Yes it won for the Toxic Storm. Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature

“The winner of that VES prize has gone on to win the Special Effects Oscar 9 out of 14 times. So does that mean that ”Star Wars” will get the gold? No. If there’s a Best Picture nominee in this category, it usually wins.” 

 

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[Damiansport1Participant Joined: Dec 2nd, 2014 Topics: 11 Posts: 344 View Predictions]

#214524

Still think its Mad Max at oscars

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[Emil PetrovParticipant Joined: Jun 12th, 2011 Topics: 60 Posts: 336 View Predictions]

#214525

In terms of originality I think the Mad Max effects will have more of an impact of voters, so my vote is still Fury Road. 

But I will move Revenant in #2.

But Star Wars has an amazing shot at winning the Oscar.

Even the VFX race this year is an unknown. By this time we usualy know who will win (Life of Pi, Gravity …)

Crazy year.  

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[kvothe_snowParticipant Joined: Dec 11th, 2015 Topics: 0 Posts: 304 View Predictions]

#214526

I’m happy for Star Wars. I thought its VFX was competently done, but there was nothing really outstanding about it. I wonder if Fury Road used more CGI than practical effects that it would win this. I still think it’s Fury Road at the Oscars.

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[Guest2014Participant Joined: Nov 15th, 2011 Topics: 180 Posts: 3377 View Predictions]

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A little bit of sanity returns to the guild voting.   TFA for the win Oscar night, on a night that is already tainted by #OscarsSOWhite and the snubbing of the most popular film of all time (which will break $900 million domestic by this weekend) for fucking Mad Max Fury Road, the most overrated movie of this century.

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[Guest2014Participant Joined: Nov 15th, 2011 Topics: 180 Posts: 3377 View Predictions]

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I’m glad other people on this forum agree that Star Wars was awful

Awful?  93 Rotten Tomatoes rating.  $896,541,631 at the domestic boxoffice alone.  Relegated to the Oscars ghetto all sci-fi movies are put (Sound, VFX, etc).  

Yeah, TFA was awful, all right.  

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[Guest2014Participant Joined: Nov 15th, 2011 Topics: 180 Posts: 3377 View Predictions]

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[quote=”PJ_Edwards”]

Dad gum it! Now I might have to predict Flop Wars to win an Oscar now!?

“Flop Wars” I call it “Disney Wars: The Failed Awakening”, personally. You JackO, have just become my favorite person on this entire website! 😉
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You two wouldn’t know true movie quality if it bit you right in the ass.  The critics and moviegoers worldwide have spoken.  Bad movies do not earn $2 billion worldwide as of this coming weekend. 

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