VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY NOMINATIONS

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture

Paul Butterworth, Charley Henley, Allen Maris and Richard Stammers (Prometheus)

Grady Cofer, Pablo Helman, Jeanie King and Glen McIntosh (Battleship)

Thomas Fisher, Susan MacLeod, Guillaume Rocheron and Bill Westenhofer (Life of Pi)

Joe Letteri, Eileen Moran, Eric Saindon and Kevin L. Sherwood (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Susan Pickett, Janek Sirrs, Jeff White and Guy Williams (The Avengers)

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture
Geoff Anderson, Chris Harvey and Jeremy Hattingh (Zero Dark Thirty)

Kevin Baillie, Michael Lantieri, Chris Stoski and Ryan Tudhope (Flight)

Béatrice Bauwens, Cédric Fayolle, Nicolas Rey and Stéphane Thibert (Rust and Bone)

Felix Bergés, Sandra Hermida and Pau Costa Moeller (The Impossible)

Matt Dessero, Leslie Hough, Gregory McMurry and Tom Smith (Argo)

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Matt Aitken, Victor Huang, Christian Rivers and R. Christopher White (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Daniel Baldwin, Mattias Forsstrom, Sam Schwier and Joshua Wassung – ‘Hover Car Chase’ (Total Recall)

Colin Benoit, Jeremy Goldman, Tory Mercer and Anthony Rispoli – ‘Downtown Manhattan’ (The Avengers)

Rob Engle, David Schaub, Cosku Turhan and Max Tyrie (The Amazing Spider-Man)

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Florent Andorra, Willi Geiger, Rick Hankins and Florian Witzel (Battleship)

Jason Bayever, David Horsley, Scott Townsend and Miles Vignol – ‘Ocean’ (Life of Pi)

Areito Echevarria, Chet Leavai, Garry Runke and Francois Sugny (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Harry Mukhopadhyay, David Stopford, Mark Williams and Derek Wolfe – ‘Storm of God’ (Life of Pi)

Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture
Jean-Luc Azzis, Steven McGillen, Christoph Salzmann and Charles Tait (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Chris Balog, Peter Demarest, Nelson Sepulveda and Alan Travis – ‘Hulk Punch’ (The Avengers)

Xavier Bourque, Sam Cole, Simone Riginelli and Denis Scolan – ‘Engineers & the Orrery’ (Prometheus)

Ryan Clarke, Jose Fernandez, Sean Oharas and Hamish Schumacher – ‘Storm of God’ (Life of Pi)

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Ryan Arcus, Simon Jung, Alastair Maher and Anthony M. Patti – ‘Goblin Caverns’ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Jason Bayever, Sho Hasegawa, Jimmy Jewell and Walt Jones – ‘Open Ocean’ (Life of Pi)

Richard Bluff, Giles Hancock, David Meny and Andy Proctor – ‘Midtown Manhattan’ (The Avengers)

Julien Bolbach, Marco Genovesi, Martin Riedel and Marco Rolandi – ‘LV-233’ (Prometheus)

Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture
Scott Beverly, Alan Faucher, Ian Hunter and Steve Newburn – ‘Airplane Heist’ (The Dark Knight Rises)

Markus Donhauser, Patrick Lehn, Angel Martinez and Juergen Pirman – ‘Orchid Hotel’ (The Impossible)

Craig Feifarek, Nam Hee Chel, Erik Neill and Tae Hyun Park – ‘Cape Canaveral / Apollo Launch’ (Men in Black 3)

Rene Garcia, Bruce Holcomb, Polly Ing and Aaron Wilson – ‘Helicarrier’ (The Avengers)

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Gino Acevedo, Alessandro Bonora, Jeff Capogreco and Kevin Estey – ‘Gollum’ (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Betsy Asher Hall, Sean Comer, Erik De Boer and Lan Kai Hua – ‘Richard Parker’ (Life of Pi)

Chan Jung Min, David Clayton, Guillaume Francois and James Jacobs – ‘Goblin King’ (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Marc Chu, John Doublestein, Cyrus Jam and Jason Smith – ‘The Hulk’ (The Avengers)

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian and Bill Wise (Brave)

Nancy Bernstein, David Prescott, Peter Ramsey and Christina Steinberg (Rise of the Guardians)

Lydia Bottegoni, James Crossley, Mike Ford and Daniel Kramer (Hotel Transylvania)

Chris Butler, Sam Fell, Travis Knight and Brad Schiff (ParaNorman)

Sean Jenkins, Scott Kersavage, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer (Wreck-It Ralph)

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Michael K. O’Brien and Bill Watral (Brave)

Michael Cordova, Grant Laker, Susanna Luck and Peter Vickery – ‘Angry Aggie Ink-Blot Electricity’ (ParaNorman)

Aidan Fraser, Joe Gorski, Eric Kuehne and Andrew Nawrot – ‘Practical Volumetrics’ (ParaNorman)

Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, Andrew Wheeler and Stephen Wood – ‘Last Stand’ (Rise of the Guardians)

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Tim Best, Steve Pilcher, Inigo Quilez and Andy Whittock – ‘The Forest’ (Brave)

Alice Bird, Matt Delue and Caitlin Pashalek – ‘Main Street’ (ParaNorman)

Eric Bouffard, Sonja Burchard, Andy Harbeck and Peter Maynez – ‘The North Pole’ (Rise of the Guardians)

Phil Brotherton, Robert Desue, Oliver Jones and Nick Mariana – ‘The Graveyard’ (ParaNorman)

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Will Becher, Jay Grace and Loyd Price (The Pirates: Band of Misfits)

Bill Haller, Tim Pixton and Jorge Vigara – ‘Dracula’ (Hotel Transylvania)

Travis Hathaway, Olivier Soares, Peter Sumanaseni and Brian Tindall – ‘Merida’ (Brave)

John Kahwaty, Suzan Kim, Michelle Robinson and Tony Smeed – ‘Vanellope’ (Wreck-It Ralph)

As regards the Academy, four of the five nominees in the main category here are eligible there - only Battleship won't get the Oscar nod for sure. Happy to see Prometheus there, and hope it gets in with Oscar; Life of Pi is certain for the Oscar, The Avengers and The Hobbit (the big winner here, with seven nominations) are less certain, but very likely. Winners on the 5th of February.