13th Visual Effects Society Awards

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Ryan Stafford, Matt Kutcher, Dan Lemmon, Hannah Blanchini

• Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Susan Pickett, Jonathan Fawkner, Nicolas Aithadi, Paul Corbould
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Joe Letteri, David Conley, Eric Saindon, Kevin Sherwood, Steve Ingram
• Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Kevin Elam, Ann Podlozny, Andrew Lockley, Scott Fisher
• Maleficent – Carey Villegas, Barrie Hemsley, Adam Valdez, Kelly Port, Michael Dawson
• X-Men: Days of Future Past – Ricard Stammers, Blondel Aidoo, Lou Pecora, Anders Landlangs, Cameron Waldbauer

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Ara Khanikian, Ivy Agregan, Sebastien Moreau

• Divergent – Jim Berney, Greg Baxter, Matt Dessero
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Gabriel Sanchez, Jenny Foster, Simon Weisse, Jan Burda
• The Imitation Game – Stuart Bullen, Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor, Simon Rowe
• Unbroken – Bill George, Steve Gaub, Erin Dusseault, Dave Morley, Brian Cox

Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli, Zach Parrish

• How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Bonnie Arnold, Dean DeBlois, Dave Walvoord, Simon Otto
• Rio 2 – Carlos Saldanha, Bruce Anderson, John C. Donkin, Kirk Garfield
• The Boxtrolls – Travis Knight, Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable, Brad Schiff
• The Lego Movie – Chris McKay, Amber Naismith, Jim Dodd, David Williams

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Caesar - Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Andrea Merlo, Emiliano Padovani

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Koba - Daniel Barrett, Alessandro Bonora, Mark Edward Allen, Masaya Suzuki
• Guardians of the Galaxy - Rocket - Kevin Spruce, Rachel Williams, Laurie Brugger, Mark Wilson
• Maleficent - Thistlewit - Darren Hendler, Matthias Wittmann, Jeremy Buttell, Elliot Rosenstein

Big Hero 6 – Baymax – Colin Eckart, John Kahwaty, Zach Parrish, Zack Petroc

• How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Hiccup – Jakob Hjort Jensen, Fabio Lignini, Stephen Candell, Hongseo Park
• Rio 2 – Gabi – Jason Sadler, Ignacio Barrios, Drew Winey, Diana Diriwaechter
• The Boxtrolls – Archibald Snatcher – Travis Knight, Jason Stalman, Michael Laubach, Kyle Williams

Interstellar - Tesseract - Tom Bracht, Graham Page, Thomas Døhlem, Kristy Clark

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Triskelion - Johan Thorngren, Greg Kegel, Quentin Marmier, Luis Calero
• Lucy - Times Square - Richard Bluff, Steve Bevins, Steve DeLuca, Tiffany Young
• Noah - Antediluvian Earth - Grady Cofer, Dan Wheaton, Susumu Yukuhiro, Ben O'Brien

Big Hero 6 - Into the Portal - Ralf Habel, David Hutchins, Michael Kaschalk, Olun Riley

• How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Oasis - Sun Yoon, Liang-Yuan Wang, Ted Davis, Shannon Thomas
• The Book of Life - Magical Land of the Remembered - Glo Minaya, Amy Chen, Sean McEwan, Jeff Masters
• The Boxtrolls - Boxtroll Cavern - Curt Enderle, Rob DeSue, Emily Greene, Jesse Gregg

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Kitchen Scene - Austin Bonang, Casey Schatz, Dennis Jones, Newton Thomas Sigel

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Keith Miller, Jonathan Paquin, Alessandro Sapono, David Houghton Williams
• Edge of Tomorrow - Beach and Paris Attacks - Albert Cheng, Jose Enrique Astacio Jr., Michael Havart, Dion Beebe
• Interstellar - Tesseract - Faraz Hameed, Stephen Painter, Hoyte van Hoytema, Dorian Knapp

Big Hero 6 - San Fransokyo - Brett Achorn, Minh Duong, Scott Watanabe, Larry Wu

• The Boxtrolls - Mecha-Drill - Tom McClure, Oliver Jones, Raul Martinez
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies -Laketown - Leslie Chan, Alastair Mayer, Niklas Preston, Justin Stockton
• Transformers: Age of Extinction - Knightship - Landis Fields, John Goodson, Anthony Rispoli, Dae Han

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen - Adam Paschke, Premamurti Paetsch, Sam Hancock, Timmy Lundin

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Helicarrier broadside and crash - Dan Pearson, Sheldon Serrao, Jose Burgos, Eric Jennings
• Edge of Tomorrow - Destruction and Sand - Steve Avoujageli, Pawel Grochola, Atsushi Ikarashi, Paul Waggoner
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Jon allitt, David Caeiro, Ronnie Menahem

Big Hero 6 - Henrik Falt, David Hutchins, Michael Kaschalk, John Kosnik

• How to Train Your Dragon 2 - The Battle - Spencer Knapp, Baptiste Van Opstal, Lucas Janin, Jason Mayer
• The Boxtrolls - Kent Estep, Peter Stuart, Ralph Procida, Timur Khodzhaev
• The Lego Movie - Carsten Kolve, Jayandera Danappal, Matt Ebb, Miles Green

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Christoph Salzmann, Florian Schroeder, Quentin Hema, Simone Riginelli

• Edge of Tomorrow - Beach - Craig Wentworth, Matthew Welford, Marie Victoria Denoga, Frank Fieser
• Interstellar - Water - Raphael Hamm, Isaac Layish, Sebastian Von Overheidt, Tristan Myles
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Simon Jung, Ben Roberts, Matthew Adams, Jordan Schilling

Game of Thrones - The Children - Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Stuart Brisdon, Thomas Schelesny, Sven Martin

• Constantine - A Feast of Friends - Kevin Blank, Elizabeth Castro, Yafei Wu, Chris LeDoux
• Hemlock Grove - Matt Whelan, Chris Brown, Todd Masters, Jonathan Banta, Eric McAvoy
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. -Mark Kolpack, Sabrina Arnold, Gary D'Amico, Kevin Lingenfelser, David Beedon
• The Flash - Armen Kevorkian, James Baldanzi, Jeremy Jozwick, Andranik Taranyan

American Horror Story: Freak Show - Edward Mordrake, Part 2 - Jason Piccioni, Jason Spratt, Mike Kirylo, Justin Bal, Eric Roberts

• Black Sails - Episode 1 - Erik Henry, Annemarie Griggs, Paul Graff, George Murphy
• Crossbones - Kevin Blank, Ron Pogue, Andy Weder, Niklas Jacobson, Mans Bjorklund
• Penny Dreadful - Séance - James Cooper, Bill Halliday, Sarah McMurdo, Lorne Kwechansky
• Ripper Street - Whitechapel Terminus - Ed Bruce, Alan Collins, Joe Courtis, John O'Connell

SSE - Maya - Neil Davies, Alex Hammond, Jorge Montiel, Beth Vander

• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Discover Your Power - Paul O'Shea, Michael Wigart, Andy Boyd, Jacob Montgomery, Benoit Mannquin
• Destiny - Become Legend - Eric Barba, Carla Attanasio, Greg Teegarden, Dan Akers
• ESA - Ambition - Jakub Knapik, Tomasz Wachnik, Lukasz Sobisz, Michal Skrzypiec
• General Electric - Childlike Imagination - Benjamin Walsh, Jennie Burnett, Brian Burke, Dominik Bauch

SSE - Maya - Jorge Montiel, Alex Hammond, Daniel Kmet, Philippe Moine

• Freesat Freetime - Sheldon - Russell Dodgson, Grant Walker, Juan Sebastian Nino, Amar Chundavadra
• Game of Thrones - Drogon - Philip Meyer, Thomas Kutschera, Igor Majdandzic, Mark Spindler
• John Lewis - Monty the Penguin - Diarmid Harrison Murray, Tim Van Hussen, Amir Bazazi, Georgios Kyparissous

Game of Thrones - Braavos Establisher - Rene Borst, Christian Zilliken, Jan Burda, Steffen Metzner

• Coca-Cola - Snowy Forest - Tom Bardwell, Kevin Ives, Kyle Cody, Jimmy Gass
• Penny Dreadful -Séance - Matthew Borrett, Lorne Kqechansky, Graham Day, Jason Gougeon
• War Thunder - Battlefield - Andrey Bogdanov, Mikhail Datcik, Dmitriy Ovcharenko, Ekaterina Bogdanova

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Dominique Vidal, Isabelle Perin-Leduc, Sandrine Lurde, Alexandre Lerouge

• Direct TV - Landing - Jeffrey Dates, Jimmy Gass, Iwan Zwarts, Ryan Coster
• SSE - Maya - Alex Hammond, Peter Agg, Sam Driscoll, Jimmy Gass
• Vikings - Invasion Storm Sequence - Jeremy Dineen, Eric Lacroix, Kyle Yoneda, Norman Ran

Game of Thrones - The Watchers on the Wall - Dan Breckwoldt, Martin Furman, Sophie Marfleet, Eric Andrusyszyn

• American Horror Story: Freak Show - Edward Mordrake, Part 2 - Tommy Tran, JV Pike, Rob Lutz, Matt Lefferts
• Game of Thrones - Wight Attack - Keegan Douglas, Okan Ataman, Brian Fortune, David Lopez
• The Knick - Abigail's Nose - Vance Miller, Aaron Raff, John Bair, Rebecca Dunn
• Vikings - Invasion - Ovidiu Cinazan, Gary Couto, Doug Cook, Angel Li

SSE - Neil Davies, Leonardo Costa, Gianluca DiMarco

• Destiny - Become Legend - Dan Akers, Nitant Karnik, Matt Smith, Kym Olsen
• Kia the Truth - Paul Lambert, Dan Akers, Carlos Morales, Holly Horter
• Nike Hypervenom - Mirrors ft. Neymar Jr. - Dan Williams, Daniel Morris, Ilia Mokhtareizadeh, Greg Spencer

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Yi-chao Sandy Lin-Chiang, Joseph Salud, Demetrius Leal, Dave Blizard

• Alien: Isolation - Jude Bond, Al Hope, Howard Rayner, Oriol Sans Gomez
• Infamous Second Son - Matt Vainio, Horia Dociu, Jason Connell, Bill Rockenbeck
• Sunset Overdrive - Jacinda Chew, Bryan Intihar, Grant Hollis

Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy - Tony Apodaca, Marianna McLean, Gilles Martin, Edwin Chang, Mark Mine

• Hubei in the Air - Andrew Roberts, Claudia Lachnitt, Yas Takata, Boris Schmidt, Sebastian Butenberg
• Star Journey - Adam Watkins, Viktorija Ogureckaja, Thilo Ewers, Omid Arzhang, Yas Takata
• Hogwarts Express (Universal Orlando Resort) - Chris Shaw, Rich Yeomans, Steven Godfrey, Peter Jopling, John Richardson
• The Lost Temple - John Hughes, Walt Jones, Brent Young, Michael Smith

Wrapped - Roman Kaelin, Falko Paeper, Florian Wittmann, Paolo Tamburrino

• Deep Dance - Marco Erbich, Christoph Westphal, Vincent Langer
• Dragon Clan - Yaui Fan, Sheng Xu
• Murphy - Bruno LeVeque, Xavier Lafarge