As expected, Oscar frontrunner Dune easily captured the award for Best Visual Effects from this guild, so its Oscar fate seems inevitable now.

AwardsTallies

(4) Dune, Encanto

The Awards

Best Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

Dune (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

Last Night in Soho (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Peter)

Best Visual Effects in an Animated Feature

Encanto (Wesley, Thomas, RU:Peter, RU:Tripp)

Best Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature

Finch – Jeff (RU:Wesley)

Best Animated Character in an Animation Feature

Encanto – Mirabel Madrigal (Peter, RU:Wesley)

Best Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature

Spider-Man: No Way Home – The Mirror Dimension (Tripp, Thomas, RU:Wesley, RU:Peter)

Best Created Environment in an Animated Feature

Encanto – Antonio’s Room (Tripp, RU:Peter)

Best Effects Simulations in an Photoreal Feature

Dune – Dunes of Arrakis (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature

Raya and the Last Dragon (Tripp, RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas)

Best Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project

Dune – Royal Ornithopter (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Best Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project

Encanto – We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Peter, Tripp, RU:Wesley)

Best Compositing & Lighting in a Photoreal Feature

Dune – Attack on Arrakeen (Peter, Tripp)

Best Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal or Animated Project

Jungle Cruise

Visual Effects Society Data

First Awards: 2002 (20)