# Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting in 2012. It is awarded to visual effects artists for their work in effects simulations.

## Winners & Nominees
### 2010s

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2012 | Life of Pi (Storm of God) | Hary Mukhopadhyay, David Stopford, Mark Williams, Derek Wolfe |
| 2012 | Battleship | Florent Andorra, Willi Geiger, Rick Hankins, Florian Witzel |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Areito Echevarria, Chet Leavai, Garry Runke, Francois Sugny |
| 2012 | Life of Pi (Ocean) | Xavier Bourque, Sam Cole, Simone Riginelli |
| 2013 | Gravity (Parachute and ISS Destruction) | Alexis Wajsbrot, Sylvain Degrotte, Horacio Mendoza, Juan-Luis Sanchez |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Areito Echevarria, Andreas Soderstrom, Ronnie Menahem, Christoph Sprenger |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Brian Goodwin, Gray Horsfield, Mathieu Chardonnet, Adrien Toupet |
| 2013 | Pacific Rim (Fluid Simulation & Destruction) | Ryan Hopkins, Michael Balog, Patrick Conran, Rick Hankins |
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past (Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen) | Adam Paschke, Premamurti Paetsch, Sam Hancock, Timmy Lundin |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Helicarrier Broadside and Crash) | Dan Pearson, Sheldon Serrao, Jose Burgos, Eric Jennings |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow (Destruction and Sand) | Steve Avoujageli, Pawel Grochola, Atsushi Ikarashi, Paul Waggoner |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Jon Allitt, David Caeiro, Ronnie Menahem |
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road (Toxic Storm) | Dan Bethell, Clinton Downs, Chris Young |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron (Hulk vs. Hulkbuster) | Michael Balog, Jim Van Allen, Florent Andorra, Georg Kaltenbrunner |
| 2015 | San Andreas (Hoover Dam/San Francisco Tsunami) | Joe Scarr, Lukas Lepicovsky, Yves D-Incau, Marcel Kern |
| 2015 | San Andreas (Los Angeles Destruction) | Remy Torre, Marc Horsfield, Niall Flinn, Victor Grant |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Starkiller Base) | Rick Hankins, Dan Bornstein, John Doublestein, Gary Wu |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book (Nature Effects) | Oliver Winwood, Fabian Nowak, David Schneider, Ludovic Ramisandraina |
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass (Rust) | Klaus Seitschek, Joseph Pepper, Jacob Clark, Cosku Turhan |
| 2016 | Doctor Strange (Hong Kong Reverse Destruction) | Florian Witzel, Georges Nakhle, Azhul Mohamed, David Kirchner |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Jedha Destruction) | Miguel Perez Senent, Matt Puchala, Ciaran Moloney, Luca Mignardi |
| 2017 | War for the Planet of the Apes | David Caeiro Cebrian, Johnathan Nixon, Chet Leavai, Gary Boyle |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | Florent Andorra, Alexis Hall, Raul Essig, Branko Grujcic |
| 2017 | Only the Brave (Fire & Smoke) | Georg Kaltenbrunner, Thomas Bevan, Philipp Zaufel, Himanshu Joshi |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Bombing Run) | Peter Kyme, Miguel Perez Senet, Ahmed Gharraph, Billy Copley |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Mega Destroyer Destruction) | Mihai Cioroba, Ryoji Fujita, Jiyong Shin, Dan Finnegan |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War (Titan) | Sabine Laimer, Tim Walker, Tobias Wiesner, Massimo Pasquetti |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War (Wakanda) | Florian Witzel, Adam Lee, Miguel Perez Senent, Francisco Rodriguez |
| 2018 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Dominik Kirouac, Chloe Ostiguy, Christian Gaumond |
| 2018 | Venom | Aharon Bourland, Jordan Walsh, Aleksandar Chalyovski, Federico Frassinelli |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Don Wong, Thibault Gauriau, Goncalo Cabaca, Francois-Maxence Desplanques |
| 2019 | Dumbo (Bubble Elephants) | Sam Hancock, Victor Glushchenko, Andrew Savchenko, Arthur Moody |
| 2019 | The Lion King | David Schneider, Samantha Hiscock, Andy Feery, Kostas Strevlos |
| 2019 | Spider-Man: Far From Home (Molten Man) | Adam Gailey, Jacob Santamaria, Jacob Clark, Stephanie Molk |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2020 | Project Power | Yin Lai, Jimmy Leung, Jonathan Edward Lyddon-Towl, Pierpaolo Navarini, Michelle Lee |
| 2020 | Bloodshot | Omar Meradi, Jeremy Poupin, Sylvain Robert, Deak Ferrand |
| 2020 | Greyhound | Mike Nixon, Nicholas Papworth, Jeremy Smith, Yashdeep Sawant |
| 2020 | Monster Hunter | Vimal Mallireddy, Warren Lawtey, Tom O'Bready, Dominik Haase |
| 2020 | Mulan | Theo Vandernoot, Sandra Balej, James Carson, Yuri Rudakov |
| 2021 | Dune (Dunes of Arrakis) | Gero Grimm, Ivan Larinin, Hideki Okano, Zuny An |
| 2021 | Godzilla vs. Kong (Ocean Water & Battle Destruction) | Jonathan Freisler, Nahuel Alberto Letizia, Eloi Andaluz Fullà, Saysana Rintharamy |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Water, Bubbles & Magic) | Simone Riginelli, Claude Schitter, Teck Chee Koi, Arthur Graff |
| 2021 | The Suicide Squad (Corto Maltese City Destruction) | David R. Davies, Rogier Fransen, Sandy Sutherland, Brandon James Fleet |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water (Water Simulations) | Jonathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicolas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water (Fire and Destruction) | Miguel Perez Senent, Xavier Martin Ramirez, David Kirchner, Ole Geir Eidsheim |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (City Street Flooding) | Matthew Hanger, Alexis Hall, Hang Yang, Mikel Zuloaga |
| 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore | Jesse Parker Holmes, Grayden Solman, Toyokazu Hirai, Rob Richardson |

## Superlatives
### Films with Multiple Nominations
#### 2 Nominations

* Avengers: Infinity War
* Life of Pi
* San Andreas
* Star Wars: The Last Jedi