And the winners are … Sci-Tech, ACE, ASC and VES hand out awards

Post,  March, 2005  by Daniel Restuccio

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Peter Fonda presented the President's Award to Richard Moore, ASC. Moore cofounded Panavision with Robert Gottschalk in 1954.

VES

Harry Potter, The Aviator and The Day After Tomorrow were all honored with outstanding "visual effects in a motion picture" awards at the 3rd annual Visual Effects Society (VES) awards held at the Hollywood Palladium.

Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, Theresa Corrao and Emma Norton were honored for outstanding work in a visual effects-driven motion picture for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rob Legato, Ron Ames, Matthew Gratzner and Pete Travers won the award for outstanding supporting visual effect in a motion picture in The Aviator. And Karen Goulekas, Mike Chambers, Chris Horvath and Matthew Butler won for the best single visual effect of the year for the tidal wave sequence in The Day After Tomorrow.

Robert Zemeckis was honored with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the visual effects industry and to filmmaking as a whole. The honor was presented to him by Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Ken Ralston and long-time friend/collaborator Tom Hanks.

Robert Abel was honored posthumously with the Georges Melies Award for his contributions to the visual effects industry.

Other feature film "outstanding" awards were received by Robert Spurlock, Richard Stutsman, Matthew Gratzner and R. Bruce Steinheimer for The Aviator, special effects in service to visual effects in a motion picture; Dan Abrams, David Emery, Andrew Nawrot and John Hart for Spider-Man 2 (NYC street, night), created environment in a live action motion picture; Matthew Gratzner, Scott Schneider, Adam Gelbart and Leigh-Alexandra Jacob for The Aviator (XFI I crash), models and miniatures in a motion picture; Colin Drobnis, Greg Derochie, Blaine Kennison and Kenny Lam, Spider-Man 2 (train sequence), compositing in a motion picture; Craig T. Nelson, Bill Wise, Bill Sheffler and Bolhem Bouchiba, The Incredibles (Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible), performance by an animated character in an animated motion picture; Michael Eames, David Lomax, Felix Balbas and Pablo Grillo for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Hippogriff), performance by an animated character in a live action motion picture; and Alfred Molina, Spider-Man 2, performance by an actor or actress in a visual effects film.

Television "outstanding" honors went to: Ronald Moore, Daniel Curry and David Takemura for Star Trek Enterprise, ("Storm Front, Part 2"), visual effects in a broadcast series; Jim Radford, Tom Phillips, Simon Thomas and Loraine Cooper for Virtual History--The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler, visual effects in a broadcast miniseries, movie or special; Kevin Blank, Mitch Suskin, Benoit Girard and Jerome Morin for Lost (Pilot, Part 2), supporting visual effect in a broadcast program; Eric Grenaudier, Anthony Ocampo, Cedric Tomacruz and Michael Cook for Spartacus (opening), created environment in a live-action broadcast program; George Roper, Christian Manz, Sirio Quintavalle and Pedro Sabrosa for Space Odyssey--Voyage to the Planets, compositing in a broadcast program, music video or commercial; William de Bosch Kemper, Brian Harder, Patrick Kalyn and Scott Paquin for Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, performance by an animated character in a live-action broadcast program; and Trevor Cawood, Neill Blomkamp, Simon Van de Lagemaat and Winston Helgason for Citroen--Alive with Technology, visual effects in a commercial.