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Visual Effects Society Awards 2003 ...
2nd Visual Effects Society Awards February 18, 2004 ---- Best Visual Effects - Motion Picture: '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' The 2nd Visual Effects Society Awards, given on February 18, 2004, honored the best visual effects in film and television. The ceremony was held at the Hollywood Palladium and an edited version was broadcast on TechTV. Winners and nominees (Winners in bold) Honorary Awards Lifetime Achievement Award: *George Lucas Film Television References External links Visual Effects Society {{Visual Effects Society Awards 2003 Visual Effects Society Awards Visual Effects Society Awards Visual Effects Society Awards Visual Effects Society Awards The Visual Effects Society (VES) is an entertainment industry organization representing visual effects practitioners including artists, animators, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of The King
''The Return of the King'' is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's '' The Lord of the Rings'', following '' The Fellowship of the Ring'' and '' The Two Towers''. It was published in 1955. The story begins in the kingdom of Gondor, which is soon to be attacked by the Dark Lord Sauron. Title and publication Tolkien conceived of ''The Lord of the Rings'' as a single work comprising six "books" plus extensive appendices. In 1953, he proposed titles for the six books to his publisher, Rayner Unwin; Book Five was to be ''The War of the Ring'', while Book Six was to be ''The End of the Third Age''. These titles were eventually used in the (2000) ''Millennium edition''. Rayner Unwin however split the work into three volumes, publishing the fifth and sixth books with the appendices into the final volume with the title ''The Return of the King''. Tolkien felt the chosen title revealed too much of the story, and indicated that he preferred ''The War of the Ring'' as a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Hayes
Craig Hayes (also known as Craig Davies) is a visual effects artist. He was nominated at the 73rd Academy Awards for his work on the film ''Hollow Man''. He shared his nomination with Scott E. Anderson, Stan Parks and Scott Stokdyk. During the 69th Academy Awards he won a Technical Achievement Award. He also works for Tippett Studio. Selected filmography * ''RoboCop'' (1987) * ''Willow'' (1988) * ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' (1989) * ''RoboCop 2'' (1990) * ''Jurassic Park'' (1993) * ''RoboCop 3'' (1993) * '' Tremors II: Aftershocks'' (1996) * ''DragonHeart'' (1996) * ''Starship Troopers'' (1997) * '' The Haunting'' (1999) * ''My Favorite Martian'' (1999) * ''Virus'' (1999) * ''Hollow Man'' (2000) * ''Evolution'' (2001) * ''The One'' (2001) * ''Blade II'' (2002) * ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (2003) * ''Constantine'' (2005) * '' Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure'' (2007) * '' Red Cliff'' (2008) * ''Red Cliff II'' (2009) * ''Immortals Immortality is the ability to live forev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Effects Society Award For Outstanding Animated Character In A Photoreal Feature
The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2002. Since its inception, the award's title has gone through six different title changes, and one major category shift. First awarded in 2002, the award was titled "Outstanding Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture" and given to the best character animation in a live action film, with no specific character cited. This would change in 2004, when the category was re-titled "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture", and given to visual effects artists for work on a specified character. The category was again re-titled in 2008, this time to "Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture". In 2014, it was titled "Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture", but changed in 2016 to "Outstand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stromberg
Robert Stromberg (born 1965) is an American special effects artist, designer and filmmaker. Stromberg's credits include films such as James Cameron's ''Avatar'', Tim Burton's '' Alice in Wonderland'', and Sam Raimi's ''Oz the Great and Powerful'', the former two earning him Academy Award wins for Best Art Direction. He made his directorial debut with the 2014 Disney film ''Maleficent'', a re-imagining of the iconic Disney villain. DiscussingFilm reported that he joined as a production designer for ''Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness''. Personal life Robert Stromberg graduated from Carlsbad High School (CA) in 1983, and attended Palomar College, and graduated from California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). Stromberg is the uncle of Emblem3 members Keaton Keaton may refer to: *Keaton (name) *2712 Keaton 71 may refer to: * 71 (number) * one of the years 71 BC, AD 71, 1971, 2071 * 71'' (film), 2014 British film set in Belfast in 1971 * '' 71: Into the Fire'', 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan McGuinness
Nathan Paul McGuinness is a creative director and visual effects supervisor. He was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the film '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' (2003) and won a BAFTA Award for his work on the film '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008). Selected filmography *'' Black Hawk Down'' (2001) *''Pearl Harbor'' (2001) *''Planet of the Apes'' (2001) *''Bad Boys II'' (2003) *'' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' (2003) *'' X2: X-Men United'' (2003) *''National Treasure'' (2004) *''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' (2005) *''King Kong'' (2005) *'' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' (2006) *'' National Treasure: Book of Secrets'' (2007) *'' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' (2007) *''Transformers'' (2007) *'' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008) *'' The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'' (2009) *''Terminator Salvation'' (2009) *'' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' (2009) *''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefen Fangmeier
Stefen Markus Fangmeier (born December 9, 1960 in El Paso, Texas, United States) is an American visual effects supervisor and film director. He worked on numerous major feature films, including ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', ''Saving Private Ryan'', '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''Twister'', '' The Perfect Storm'' and '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World''. He also has been a second unit director for two films, ''Dreamcatcher'' (2003) and ''Galaxy Quest'' (1999). After more than 15 years of visual effects work, Fangmeier moved into feature film directing with his debut on ''Eragon'', which was released in 2006 to negative critic reviews but was a box office success . Since ''Eragon'', Fangmeier has largely focused on supervising and directing visual effects, including for the eighth season of ''Game of Thrones ''Game of Thrones'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Far Side Of The World
''The Far Side of the World'' is the tenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1984. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The story from ''Treason's Harbour'' has several points resolved, as to the success of Maturin's work identifying the French spies, the trap that Aubrey sailed out of but HMS ''Pollux'' did not, and Aubrey resolving the tension between him and Lieutenant Fielding, who escaped the worst French prisoner-of-war facility. In Gibraltar, Captain Aubrey receives another mission, to sail HMS ''Surprise'' to protect British whalers in the Pacific Ocean from USS ''Norfolk'', for his first voyage around Cape Horn. Dr Maturin has not yet identified the high-level spy who got away. Unaware, he sends the letter to his own wife explaining his protection of the Navy wife via that very villain. The Pacific Ocean is full of wonders, and prizes, once the Jonah is off the ship. One review consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Legato
Robert Legato (born 1956) is an American visual effects supervisor, second unit director, and second unit director of photography. Raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Legato graduated from Ocean Township High School.Staff. "Shore's Robert Legato is special-effects wizard behind 'Hugo'", '' Asbury Park Press'', February 26, 2012. "Many decades later, after growing up in Asbury Park, graduating from Ocean Township High School and studying film in Santa Barbara, Calif., Legato has become the magician." Career He directed the 2016 film '' Eloise''. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards and has won three. His first win was for his visual effects work on ''Titanic'', his second was for his work on ''Hugo'' and his third for The Jungle Book. In 1996, he won the BAFTA award for Best Achievement in Special Effects for '' Apollo 13'', for which he also garnered his first Academy Award nomination. He won Academy Awards in Visual effects for ''Hugo'' and ''The Jungle Book''. In 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carey Villegas
Carey Villegas is a visual effects artist who was nominated at the 83rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects, for the film ''Alice in Wonderland''. His nomination was shared with Sean Phillips, Ken Ralston and David Schaub. Also for Alice in Wonderland, Carey won the 2010 Golden Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the British Academy Award (BAFTA), Critics Choice Award, Saturn Award, and the Visual Effects Society Award (VES) for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture". In 2004, as a Visual Effects Supervisor, Carey was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award (VES) for "Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture" for Bad Boys II. And in 2015, as the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor on Disney's Maleficent, Carey was nominated for another VES Award for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture". He was also nominated for a 2014 Hollywood Post Alliance Award (HP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Boys II
''Bad Boys II'' is a 2003 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The sequel to the 1995 film '' Bad Boys'' and the second film in the ''Bad Boys'' film series, the film follows detectives Burnett and Lowrey investigating the flow of illegal drugs going into Miami. ''Bad Boys II'' was released on July 18, 2003. It received extremely negative reviews from critics and grossed $273 million worldwide. A third film, ''Bad Boys for Life'', was released in January 2020. Plot Eight years after the events of the first film, Mike and Marcus are investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. They infiltrate a Klan meeting held in the marshland outside of Miami only to discover that they are, in fact, buyers and not distributors of the ecstasy. After a radio mishap leads to a delayed arrival of Miami Police’s Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT), Mike and Marcus end up in a shootout with the Klan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Samurai
''The Last Samurai'' is a 2003 epic period action drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan. The film stars Ken Watanabe in the title role, with Tom Cruise, who also co-produced, as a soldier-turned-samurai who befriends him, and Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Koyuki, and Shin Koyamada in supporting roles. Tom Cruise portrays an American captain of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in 19th century Japan. The film's plot was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigō Takamori, and the Westernization of Japan by foreign powers, though in the film the United States is portrayed as the primary force behind the push for Westernization. It is also influenced by the stories of Jules Brunet, a French Imperial Guard sub-li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gibson (special Effects Artist)
Charles Gibson is an American visual effects supervisor. Personal life Gibson is a son of character actor Henry Gibson. Filmography *'' Flight of the Intruder'' (1991) *''Babe'' (1995) *'' The Green Mile'' (1999) *''Cats & Dogs'' (2001) *'' The Ring'' (2002) *'' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003) *''The Terminal'' (2004) *'' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' (2006) *'' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' (2007) *''Terminator Salvation'' (2009) *'' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'' (2011) *'' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1'' (2014) *'' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2'' (2015) *''Aquaman'' (2018) Oscar awards All of these are in the category of Best Visual Effects. *68th Academy Awards-''Babe''. Award shared with Scott E. Anderson, John Cox and Neal Scanlan. Won. *76th Academy Awards-Nominated for '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl''. Nomination shared with Terry Frazee, Hal Hickel a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
