# Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society. The award goes to artists whose work in virtual cinematography. It was first awarded in 2003 and 2004 for, under the title "Best Visual Effects Photography in a Motion Picture", before being scrapped from the ceremony. The award was given separately to artists in live-action film, animated film, and commercials/television. These categories were first awarded in 2012. The following year, the category specifically awarding animated film was dropped, with only live-action film and commercial/television being awarded. In 2015, only live-action films were awarded. The following year, the category's title changed to "Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project". It has held its current title since 2020.

## 2000s

Best Visual Effects Photography in a Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Alex Funke, Brian Van't Hul, Richard Bluck |
| 2002 | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | Patrick Sweeney, Marty Rosenberg, Carl Miller, Fred Meyers |
| 2002 | Stuart Little 2 | Earl Wiggins, Mark Vargo, Tom Houghton, Anna Foerster |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded (U-Cap Facial Photography) | Kim Libreri, George Borshukov, Paul Ryan, John Gaeta |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Alex Funke, Rob Kerr, Henk Prins |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Carl Miller, Mike Conte, Tami Carter |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Pat Sweeney, Mike Bienstock, Grady Cofer, John Hansen |

## 2010s

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2011 | Hugo | Martin Chamney, Rob Legato, Adam Watkins, Fabio Zangla |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Thelvin Cabezas, Mike Perry, R. Christopher White, Erik Winquist |
| 2011 | Thor | Xavier Allard, Pierre Buffin, Nicolas Chevallier |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Michael Balog, Richard Bluff, Shawn Kelly, Jeff White |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Matt Aitken, Victor Huang, Christian Rivers, R. Christopher White |
| 2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Rob Engle, David Schaub, Cosku Turhan, Max Tyrie |
| 2012 | The Avengers (Downtown Manhattan) | Colin Benoit, Jeremy Goldman, Tory Mercer, Roger Liu |
| 2012 | Total Recall (Hover Car Chase) | Daniel Baldwin, Mattias Forsstrom, Sam Schwier, Joshua Wassung |
| 2013 | Gravity | Tim Webber, Emmanuel Lubezki, Richard McBride, Dale Newton |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Christian Rivers, Phil Barrenger, Mark Gee, Thelvin Cabezas |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Mark Smith, Aaron Gilman, Thelvin Cabezas, Gerardo Ramirez |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Daniel Paulsson, Edmund Kolloen, Joel Prager, David Stripinis |
| 2013 | Pacific Rim (Hong Kong Ocean Brawl) | Colin Benoit, Nick Walker, Adam Schnitzer, Victor Schutz |
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2011 | Rango | Colin Benoit, Philippe Rebours, Nelson Sepulveda, Nick Walker |
| 2011 | The Adventures of Tintin | Matt Aitken, Matthias Menz, Keith F. Miller, Wayne Stables |
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | Jericca Cleland, Michael Ford, David Morehead, Emi Tahira |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | Mahyar Abousaeedi, Sharon Calahan, Jeremy Lasky, Jonathan Pytko |
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Broadcast Program or Commercial
| Year | Commercial/Program | Nominee(s) |
| 2011 | Gears of War 3: Dust to Dust | Niles Heckman, Richard Morton, Vernon Wilbert Jr. |
| 2011 | Ghost Recon: Future Soldier "Camo Up" | Matt Aitken, Matthias Menz, Keith F. Miller, Wayne Stables |
| 2011 | Hot Wheels | Steve Beck, Robert Sethi, Felix Urquiza |
| 2011 | Once Upon a Time (Cinderella's Courtyard) | Stephen Jackson, Sallyanne Massimini, Nathan Matsuda, Kevin Struckman |
| 2012 | ZombiU | Dominique Boidin, Léon Bérelle, Rémi Kozyra, Maxime Luère |
| 2012 | Call of Duty - Eclipse: Surprise | Chris Bayol, Steve Beck, Chris Knight, Robert Sethi |
| 2012 | Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn | Colin Benoit, Jeremy Goldman, Tory Mercer, Roger Liu |
| 2012 | Toyota: Real Deal | Adam Berg, Niles Heckman, Ronald Herbst, Vernon Wilbert |
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live-Action Commercial or Broadcast Program
| Year | Commercial/Program | Nominee(s) |
| 2013 | The Crew | Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra, Léon Bérelle, Maxime Luère |
| 2013 | Mad Max: Ethos | Aladino Debert, Neil Huxley, David Liu, Michael Harbour |
| 2013 | Murdered: Soul Suspect | Vernon Wilbert, Tim Jones, Rafael Colon, April Warren |
| 2013 | Qualcomm Snapdragon: A Dragon is Coming | Joshua Wassung, Shannon Justison, Shayne Ryan, Seth Gollub |
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Piece | Nominee(s) |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Kitchen Scene | Austin Bonang, Casey Schatz, Dennis Jones, Newton Thomas Sigel |
| 2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Keith Miller, Jonathan Paquin, Alessandro Saponi, David Houghton Williams |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow | Beach and Paris Attacks | Albert Cheng, Jose Enrique Astacio Jr., Michael Havart, Dion Beebe |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Tesseract | Faraz Hameed, Stephen Painter, Hoyte van Hoytema, Dorian Knapp |
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project
| Year | Film/Program | Piece | Nominee(s) |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Falcon Chase/Graveyard | Paul Kavanagh, Colin Benoit, Susumu Yukuhiro, Greg Salter |
| 2015 | Ant-Man | Macro Action | James Baker, Alex Kahn, Thomas Luff, Rebecca Baehler |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Underwater Torus Chamber | Vincent Aupetit, Margaux Durand-Rival, Christopher Anciaume, Robert Elswit |
| 2015 | The Walk | Towers Walk | Shawn Hull, Suzanne Cipolletti, Laurent Taillefer, Dariusz Wolski |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | The Jungle Book | Bill Pope, Robert Legato, Gary Roberts, John Brennan |
| 2016 | Doctor Strange | New York Mirror Dimension | Landis Fields, Mathew Cowie, Frederic Medioni, Faraz Hameed |
| 2016 | Game of Thrones: "Battle of the Bastards" | Game of Thrones: "Battle of the Bastards" | Patrick Tiberius Gehlen, Michelle Blok, Christopher Baird, Drew Wood-Davies |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Space Battle | John Levin, Euisung Lee, Steve Ellis, Barry Howell |
| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Groot Dance/Opening Fight | James Baker, Steven Lo, Alvise Avati, Robert Stipp |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Be Our Guest | Shannon Justison, Casey Schatz, Neil Weatherley, Claire Michaud |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Crait Surface Battle | Cameron Nielsen, Albert Cheng, John Levin, Johanes Kurnia |
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Valkyrie's Flashback | Hubert Maston, Arthur Moody, Adam Paschke, Casey Schatz |
| 2018 | Ready Player One | New York Race | Daniele Bigi, Edmund Kolloen, Mathieu Vig, Jean-Baptiste Noyau |
| 2018 | Aquaman | Third Act Battle | Claus Pedersen, Mohammad Rastkar, Cedric Lo, Ryan McCoy |
| 2018 | Echo | Time Displacement | Victor Perez, Tomas Tjernberg, Tomas Wall, Marcus Dineen |
| 2018 | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Gyrosphere Escape | Pawl Fulker, Matt Perrin, Oscar Faura, David Vickery |
| 2018 | Welcome to Marwen | Town of Marwen | C. Kim Miles, Matthew A. Ward, Ryan Beagan, Marc Chu |
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project
| Year | Film/Program | Piece | Nominee(s) |
| 2019 | The Lion King | The Lion King | Robert Legato, Caleb Deschanel, Ben Grossmann, AJ Sciutto |
| 2019 | Alita: Battle Angel | Alita: Battle Angel | Emile Ghorayeb, Simon Jung, Nick Epstein, Mike Perry |
| 2019 | The Mandalorian: "Chapter 6: The Prisoner" | The Roost | Richard Bluff, Jason Porter, Landis R. Fields IV, Barry Baz Idoine |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | Toy Story 4 | Jean-Claude Kalache, Patrick Lin |

## 2020s

| Year | Project | Piece | Nominee(s) |
| 2020 | Soul | Soul | Matt Aspbury, Ian Megibben |
| 2020 | Ghost of Tsushima | A Storm is Coming | Aladino Debert, Matt Dougan, Eric Beaver, David Liu |
| 2020 | The Mandalorian: "Chapter 12: The Siege" | The Mandalorian: "Chapter 12: The Siege" | Dave Crispino, Kyle Winkelman, Paul Kavanagh, Jose Burgos |
| 2020 | The Mandalorian: "Chapter 15: The Believer" | The Mandalorian: "Chapter 15: The Believer" | Richard Bluff, Matthew Jensen, Chris Williams, Landis Fields IV |
| 2021 | Encanto | We Don't Talk About Bruno | Nathan Detroit Warner, Dorian Bustamante, Tyler Kupferer, Michael Woodside |
| 2021 | Godzilla vs. Kong | Ocean Battle | Shawn Hull, Robert Wiese, Steven Tom, Eric Petey |
| 2021 | Loki: Lamentis | Race to the Ark | Jesse Lewis-Evans, Luke Avery, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Scott Inkster |
| 2021 | Raya and the Last Dragon | Raya and the Last Dragon | Rob Dressel, Adolph Lusinsky, Paul Felix |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Sebastian Trujillo, Louis-Daniel Poulin, Nathan Abbot, Shannon Justison |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Avatar: The Way of Water | Richard Baneham, Dan Cox, Eric Reynolds, A.J Briones |
| 2022 | ABBA Voyage | ABBA Voyage | Pär M. Ekberg, John Galloway, Paolo Acri, Jose Burgos |
| 2022 | The Batman | Rain Soaked Car Chase | Dennis Yoo, Michael J. Hall, Jason Desjarlais, Ben Bigiel |
| 2022 | Prehistoric Planet | Prehistoric Planet | Daniel Fotheringham, Krzysztof Szczepanski, Wei-Chaun Hsu, Claire Hill |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | Joanna Davison, Cheyana Wilkinson, Michael Cozens, Jason Desjarlais |
| 2023 | The Creator | The Creator | Roel Coucke, Christopher Potter, Amanda Johnstone-Batt, Jeremy Bloch |
| 2023 | Migration | Migration | Guylo Homsy, Damien Bapst, Antoine Collet, David Dangin |
| 2023 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Rich Turner, Randolph Lizarda, Daniela Campos Little, Thomas Campos |