# Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2004. The award was originally titled "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture", and changed in 2007 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture". It was again changed in 2009, this time to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture", and again in 2011 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture". Before its final change in 2015, to its current title, it was re-titled in 2014 to "Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture".

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2004 | Spider-Man 2 | NYC Street - Night | Dan Abrams, David Emery, Andrew Nawrot and John Hart |
| 2004 | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | | Rick Leary, Jody Johnson and Pieter Warmington |
| 2004 | I, Robot | | Rachael Haupt, Mark Tait Lewis, Nick McKenzie and Geoff Tobin |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | Opening Shot | Claas Henke, Laurent Ben-Mimoun and Anupam Das |
| 2005 | King Kong | New York Dawn Attack | Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White, Matt Aiken and Charles Tait |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Gotham City Monorail Chase | Alex Wuttke, Pete Bebb, Dayne Cowan and Imery Watson |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Black Lake | Andy Kind, Ivan Moran, Rob Allman and Justin Martin |
| 2005 | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | | Jonathan Harb, Hilmar Koch, Yannick Dusseault and Brett Northcutt |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | | Chris Stoski, Susumu Yukuhiro, Jack Mongovan and Greg Salter |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | | Russell Earl, Richard Bluff, Giles Hancock and Dennis Martin |
| 2006 | Poseidon | | Mohen Leo, Daniel Pearson, Willi Geiger and Matt Brumit |
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | The Maelstrom | Frank Losasso Petterson, Paul Sharpe, Joakim Arnesson and David Meny |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | The Hall of Prophecy | David Vickery, Philippe LePrince, Trina Roy and Jolene McCaffrey |
| 2007 | I Am Legend | Times Square Hunt | Daniel Eaton, Blaine Kennison, Ron Glass and Daveed Schwartz |
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | | Barry Williams, Robert Weaver, Jay Cooper and Masahiko Tani |
| 2007 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | The Old Bailey | Raf Morant, Julian Glass, Nakia McGlynn and Christine Wong |
| 2007 | Zodiac | Washington and Cherry | Wei Zheng, Greg Szafranski, Janelle Croshaw and Karl Denham |
Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | IMAX Gotham City Scapes | Peter Bebb, David Vickery, Philippe Leprince and Andrew Lockley |
| 2008 | Cloverfield | Brooklyn Bridge Sequence | David Vickery, Phil Johnson, Victor Wade and Sean Stranks |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Temple Heart | Michael Halsted, David Fogler, Steve Walton and David Weitzberg |
| 2008 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Avalanche Sequence | Mike Meaker, Rich Mahon, Jason Iverson and Sho Hasegawa |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Created Environment | Brett Miller, Garrett Eaton and Matthew Conner |
| 2009 | Avatar | Jungle/Biolume | Eric Saindon, Shadi Almassizadeh, Dan Cox and Ula Rademeyer |
| 2009 | Avatar | Floating Mountains | Dan Lemmon, Keith F. Miller, Cameron Smith and Jessica Cowley |
| 2009 | Avatar | Willow Glade | Guy Williams, Thelvin Cabezas, Daniel Macarin and Miae Kang |
| 2009 | 2012 | Los Angeles Destruction | Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Marten Larsson, Ryo Sakaguchi and Hanzhi Tang |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2010 | Inception | Paris Dreamscape | Bruno Baron, Dan Neal, Graham Page and Per Mork-Jensen |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | Stark Expo | Giles Hancock, Richard Bluff, Todd Vaziri and Aaron McBride |
| 2010 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Sand Room | Jonathan Litt, Juan S. Gomez, Kevin Sears and Sonja Burchard |
| 2010 | Tron: Legacy | Disc Game | Jonathan Litt, Juan S. Gomez, Kevin Sears and Sonja Burchard |
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 155 Wacker Drive | Giles Hancock, John Hansen, Tom Martinek and Scott Younkin |
| 2011 | Anonymous | London | André Cantarel, Robert Freitag, Greg Strasz and Rony Soussan |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Hogwarts | Keziah Bailey, Stephen Ellis, Clement Gerard and Pietro Ponti |
| 2011 | Thor | Bifröst | Pierre Buffin, Audrey Ferrara, Yoel Godo and Dominique Vidal |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Midtown Manhattan | Richard Bluff, Barry Williams, David Meny and Andy Proctor |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Goblin Caverns | Ryan Arcus, Simon Jung, Alastair Maher and Anthony M. Patti |
| 2012 | Life of Pi | Open Ocean | Jason Bayever, Sho Hasegawa, Jimmy Jewell and Walt Jones |
| 2012 | Prometheus | LV-233 | Julien Bolbach, Marco Genovesi, Martin Riedel and Marco Rolandi |
| 2013 | Gravity | Exterior | Paul Beilby, Kyle Mcculloch, Stuart Penn and Ian Comley |
| 2013 | Elysium | Torus | Votch Levi, Joshua Ong and Barry Poon |
| 2013 | Gravity | Interior | Harry Bardak, Nathan Walster, Jonathan Fawkner and Claire Michaud |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Shipyard | John Stevenson-Galvin, Greg Notzelman, Paul Harris and Justin Stockton |
| 2013 | Pacific Rim | Hong Kong Ocean Brawl | Colin Benoit, Nick Walker, Adam Schnitzer and Victor Schutz |
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Tesseract | Tom Bracht, Graham Page, Thomas Døhlem and Kristy Clark |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Triskelion | Johan Thorngren, Greg Kegel, Quentin Marmier and Luis Calero |
| 2014 | Lucy | Times Square | Richard Bluff, Steve Bevins, Steve DeLuca and Tiffany Young |
| 2014 | Noah | Antediluvian Earth | Grady Cofer, Dan Wheaton, Susumu Yukuhiro and Ben O'Brien |
Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Falcon Chase/Graveyard | Yannick Dusseault, Mike Wood, Justin van der Lek and Quentin Marmier |
| 2015 | Ant-Man | The Microverse | Florian Witzel, Taylor Shaw, Alexis Hall and Heath Kraynak |
| 2015 | Jurassic World | Jungle Chase | Martyn Culpitt, Jao Sita, Yuta Shimizu and Michael Billette |
| 2015 | Tomorrowland | Tomorrowland Center | Barry Williams, Greg Kegel, Quentin Marmier and Thang Lee |
| 2015 | The Walk | World Trade Center | Jim Gibbs, Brian Flora, Laurent Tallefer and Pavel Kolar |
| 2016 | Doctor Strange | New York City | Adam Watkins, Martinjn van Herk, Tim Belsher and Jon Mitchell |
| 2016 | Deadpool | Freeway Assault | Seth Hill, Jedediah Smith, Laurent Taillefer and Marc-Antoine Paquin |
| 2016 | Doctor Strange | London | Brendan Seals, Raphael A. Pimentel, Andrew Zink and Gregory Ng |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Scarif Complex | Enrico Damm, Kevin George, Olivier Vernay-Kim and Yannick Dusseault |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Los Angeles | Chris McLaughlin, Ryan Salcombe, Seungjin Woo and Francesco Dell'Anna |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Trash Meca | Didier Muanza, Thomas Gillet, Guillaume Mainville and Sylvain Lorgeau |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Vegas | Eric Noel, Arnaud Saibron, Adam Goldstein and Pascal Clement |
| 2017 | War for the Planet of the Apes | Hidden Fortress | Greg Notzelman, James Shaw, Jay Renner and Gak Gyu Choi |
| 2017 | War for the Planet of the Apes | Prison Camp | Phillip Leonhardt, Paul Harris, Jeremy Fort and Thomas Lo |
| 2018 | Ready Player One | Overlook Hotel | Mert Yamak, Stanley Wong, Joana Garrido, Daniel Gagiu |
| 2018 | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Journey to the Quantum Realm | Florian Witzel, Harsh Mistri, Yuri Serizawa, Can Yuksel |
| 2018 | Aquaman | Atlantis | Quentin Marmier, Aaron Barr, Jeffrey De Guzman, Ziad Shureih |
| 2018 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Vandor Planet | Julian Foddy, Christoph Ammann, Clement Gerard, Pontus Albrecht |
| 2019 | The Lion King | The Pridelands | Marco Rolandi, Luca Bonatti, Jules Bodenstein, Filippo Preti |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Agrabah | Daniel Schmid, Falk Boje, Stanislaw Marek, Kevin George |
| 2019 | Alita: Battle Angel | Iron City | John Stevenson-Galvin, Ryan Arcus, Mathias Larserud, Mark Tait |
| 2019 | Motherless Brooklyn | Penn Station | John Bair, Vance Miller, Sebastian Romero, Steve Sullivan |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Pasaana | Daniele Bigi, Steve Hardy, John Seru, Steven Denyer |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Environment | Nominee(s) |
| 2020 | Mulan | Imperial City | Jeremy Fort, Matt Fitzgerald, Ben Walker, Adrian Vercoe |
| 2020 | Bloodshot | Neuralspace | Arbanud Brisebois, Patrick Bacon, Dawid Borkiewicz, Gérôme Viavant |
| 2020 | The Eight Hundred | 1937 Shanghai Downtown | Sefano Cieri, Aaron Auty, Simon Carlile, Patrick Zentis |
| 2020 | The Eight Hundred | Shanghai Warehouse District | Jamie Macdougall, Mark Honer, David Pekarek |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | The Mirror Dimension | Eric Le Dieu de Ville, Thomas Dotheij, Ryan Olliffe, Claire Le Teuff |
| 2021 | Dune | Arrakeen City | Rhys Salcombe, Seungjin Woo, Jeremie Touzery, Marc Austin |
| 2021 | Jungle Cruise | Waterfall Canyon | Mark McNicholl, Frédéric Valleur, Hamish Beachman, Mark Wainwright |
| 2021 | The Suicide Squad | Valle Del Marre | Nick Cattell, Jason Desjarlais, Matt Fitzgerald, Jerome Moo |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | The Reef | Jessica Cowley, Joe W. Churchill, Justin Stockton, Alex Nowotny |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Metkayina Village | Ryan Arcus, Lisa Hardisty, Paul Harris, TaeHyoung David Kim |
| 2022 | Jurassic World Dominion | Biosyn Valley | Steve Ellis, Steve Hardy, Thomas Dohlen, John Seru |
| 2022 | Slumberland | The Wondrous Cuban Hotel Dream | Daniël Dimitri Veder, Marc Austin, Pavan Rajesh Uppu, Casey Gorton |
| 2023 | The Creator | Floating Village | John Seru, Guy Williams, Vincent Techer, Timothée Maron |
| 2023 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | Place de L’Étoile | Joelle Xin Zhow, Fabrice Vienne, Vignesh Ravi, Laurent Makowski |
| 2023 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Underwater Wreck | Johan Gabrielsson, Adrian Tsang, Stefan Andersson, Martin Eneroth |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Knowhere | Omar Alejandro Lavrador Ibanez, Fabien Julvecourt, Klaudio Ladavac, Benjamin Patterson |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Arrakeen Basin | Daniel Rhein, Daniel Anton Fernández, Marc James Austin, Christopher Anciaume |
| 2024 | Civil War | Washington, D.C. | Matthew Chandler, James Harmer, Robert Moore, Adrien Zeppieri |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Rome | Oliver Kane, Stefano Farci, John Seru, Frederick Vallee |
| 2024 | Wicked | Emerald City | Alan Lam, Steve Bevins, Deepali Negi, Miguel Sánchez López-Ruíz |

## Films with Multiple Nominations
### 3 Nominations

* Avatar
* Blade Runner 2049

### 2 Nominations

* Doctor Strange
* The Eight Hundred
* Gravity
* War for the Planet of the Apes
* Avatar: The Way of Water