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Kong, War Of The Worlds Win Big
With Visual Effects Society
By Rich Drees
February 17, 2006-
Blockbusters King Kong and War Of The Worlds both
claimed three of the eight film awards handed out Wednesday evening,
February 15, 2006, at the 4th annual Visual Effects
Society Awards in Los Angeles, CA.
Director Peter Jackson’s re-imaging of the 1933 giant monster
classic King Kong captured the Society’s awards for
Outstanding Visual Effects In A Visual Effects Driven Movie,
Outstanding Animated Character In A Live Action Motion Picture and
Outstanding Created Environment In A Live Action Motion Picture.
War Of The Worlds
was awarded the Society’s Best Visual Effect Of The Year for its
“Fleeing The Neighborhood” sequence. The film also was honored for
Outstanding Models and Miniatures In A Motion Picture and
Outstanding Compositing In A Motion Picture.
Director Ridley Scott’s Crusades drama Kingdom Of Heaven won
the Society’s Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects In A Motion
Picture Award while the stop-motion animated film Wallace &
Gromit: The Curse Of The WereRabbit took the prize for
Outstanding Animated Character In An Animated Motion Picture. Pixar
Studio’s John Lassetter was awarded with the Society’s Geroges
Melies Award For Artistic Excellence. |
