The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting in 2003. It is awarded to visual effects artists for their work in compositing. It has gone through several title changes over the years; from 2003 to 2012, the category included commercials in the category, before refocusing in 2013, specifically nominating television programs.
Winners and nominees
2000s
| Year | Program/Commercial | Episode(s) | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 |
Best Compositing in a Televised Program, Music Video, or Commercial | |||
| Dinotopia | Christian Manz, Pedro Sabrosa, Nicolas Cotta, Tor-Bjorn Olsson | ABC | ||
| Firefly | "SerenityMarooned/Making Good" | Loni Peristere, Emile Edwin Smith, Kristen Branan, Chris John Jones | Fox | |
| Adidas: Mechanical Legs | Eric Barba, Bernd Angerer, Jeff Julian, Feli di Giorgio | |||
| 2003 |
Smallville | "Accelerate" | Eli Jarra, Ivan DeWolf, Brian Harding | The WB |
| Angels in America | Stefano Trivelli | HBO | ||
| Battlestar Galactica | Patti Gannon, Chris Jones, Sean Apple, Jarrod Davis | Sci Fi | ||
| 2004 |
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program | |||
| Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets | George Roper, Christian Manz, Sirio Quintavalle, Pedro Sabrosa | Discovery Channel | ||
| The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (Himalayan Pass Sequence) | Greg Groenekamp, Joel Merritt, Mamie McCall | TNT | ||
| Smallville | "Crisis" (Clark Kent Stops a Bullet Sequence) | John Han, Eli Jarra, Noriaki Matsumoto, Terry Shigemitsu | The WB | |
| 2005 |
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video | |||
| Empire | Stefano Trivelli, Michele Moen, Kelly Bumbarger, Sean Wilson | ABC | ||
| Into the West | "Wheel to the Stars" | Jared Jones, Jason Korber, Geeta Basantani, Ryan Dutour | TNT | |
| Mezzo Djarum | Robert Nederhorst, Marc Rienzo, Feliciano di Giorgio, Maciek Sokalski | |||
| 2006 |
Travelers: Snowball | Laure Lacroix, Lyse Beck, Steve McGillen, Matt Holland | ||
| Battlestar Galactica | "Resurrection Ship, Part 2" | Lane Jolly, Don Kim, Matt Smith, Chris Zapara | Sci Fi | |
| Coke: The Greatest Gift | Murray Butler, MaryAnne Lauric, Nathan Hughes, Pedro Sabrosa | |||
| ESPN: Sports Heaven | Geoff McAuliffe, Yafei Wu, Robert Sethi, Jimi Simmons | |||
| 2007 |
Nike: Leave Nothing | James Allen, Rob Trent | ||
| Levi's: Change | Tim Davies, Jason Schugardt, Yuichiro Yamashito | |||
| Smallville | "Bizarro" (Flood) | David Alexander, Kaz Yoshida, Geeta Basantani, Tony White | The CW | |
| "Justice" | Rob Reinhart, Jake Matsumoto, Takashi Takeoka, Christina Spring | |||
| Tin Man | "Into the Storm" | Todd Thibault, Philippe Thibault, Lionel Lim, Annabelle Kent | Sci Fi | |
| 2008 |
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program or Commercial | |||
| John Adams | "Join or Die" (Boston Harbor) | Paul Graff, Joshua LaCross, Matt Collorafice | HBO | |
| Coke: It's Mine (Balloons) | Angus Kneale, Dan Williams, Andrew Proctor | |||
| FedEx: PIGEON (Pigeon) | Andy Walker, Spencer Lueders, Maryane Butler, Murray Butler | |||
| Toshiba: Time Sculpture | Richard de Carterert, Paul Downes, Oliver Dadswell, John Price | |||
| 2009 |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | "Family Affair" (Opening Shot) | Derek Smith, Christina Spring, Steve Meyer, Zach Zaubi | CBS |
| Kerry Lowlow: Mouse (Overall) | Jake Mengers, Stephen Newbold, Kelly Bruce, Greg Howe-Davies | |||
| Pepsi: The Flight of the Penguin | Murray Butler, Ben Cronin, Andy Rowan-Robinson, Miyuki Shimamoto | |||
| Porsche: Family Tree | Tim Davies, Jeff Willette, Zach Tucker | |||
2010s
| Year | Program/Commercial | Episode(s) | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 |
The Pacific | "Peleliu Landing" | Jeremy Nelson, John P. Mesa, Dan Novy, Tyler Cote | HBO |
| Boardwalk Empire | "Boardwalk Empire" | Paul Graff, Brian Sales, Jesse Siglow, Merysa Nichols | HBO | |
| Drench: Cubehead | Matthew Unwin, Lisa Ryan, Michael Gregory | |||
| Travelers: Watering Hole | Franck Lamberts, Ryan Kowles | |||
| 2011 |
Boardwalk Empire | "Gimcrack & Bunkum" | Anton Dawson, Eran Dinur, Austin Meyers, David Reynolds | HBO |
| Any World: Jeep: Call of Duty: MW3 | Jason Bergman, Rodrigo Dorsch, Steve Meyer, Peter Sidoriak | |||
| Channel 4: Street Summer | Stirling Archibald, Anthony Bloor, Michael Gregory, Giacomo Mineo | |||
| DirecTV: Hot House | Franck Lambertz | |||
| 2012 |
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program | |||
| Game of Thrones | "Valar Morghulis" (White Walker Army) | Falk Boje, Esther Engel, Alexey Kuchinsky, Klaus Wuchta | HBO | |
| Hell on Wheels | "Blood Moon" | Antonio Chang, Jason Fotter, Eric Hayden, Josh Miyaji | AMC | |
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | Nathan Abbot, Shelley Campbell, Chris Morley, Christopher Paizis | HBO | ||
| Last Resort | "Captain" | Matt Von Brock, Jason Fotter, Aldo Ruggiero, Brian Williams | ABC | |
| 2013 |
Game of Thrones | "The Climb" | Kirk Brillon, Steve Gordon, Geoff Sayer, Winston Lee | HBO |
| Banshee | "Pilot" | Gevork Babityan, Andranik Taranyan, Matt Kelly, Matthieu Perin | Cinemax | |
| Game of Thrones | "The Rains of Castamere" (The Conquering of Yunkai) | Sean Faden, Greg Szafranski, Florian Friedmann, Travis Nobles | HBO | |
| Vikings | "Dispossessed" | Ovidiu Cinazan, Gary Couto, Marco Lee, Maria Gordon | History | |
| 2014 |
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program | |||
| Game of Thrones | "The Watchers on the Wall" | Dan Breckwoldt, Martin Furman, Sophie Marfleet, Eric Andrusyszyn | HBO | |
| American Horror Story: Freak Show | "Edward Mordrake, Part 2" | Tommy Tran, JV Pike, Rob Lutz, Matt Lefferts | FX | |
| Game of Thrones (Wight Attack) | Keegan Douglas, Okan Ataman, Brian Fortune, David Lopez | HBO | ||
| The Knick (Abigail's Nose) | Vance Miller, Aaron Raff, John Bair, Rebecca Dunn | Cinemax | ||
| Vikings | "Invasion" | Ovidiu Cinazan, Gary Couto, Doug Cook, Angel Li | History | |
| 2015 |
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode | |||
| Game of Thrones | "Hardhome" | Eduardo Diaz, Guillermo Orbe, Oscar Perea, Inmaculada Nadela | HBO | |
| Game of Thrones | "The Dance of Dragons" (Drogon Arena) | Dmitry Ovcharenko, Igor Klimovsky, Egor Borschevsky, Vladimir Mikheyenko | HBO | |
| "The House of Black and White" (Drogon Lair) | Travis Nobles, Mark Spindler, Max Riess, Nadja Ding | |||
| Vikings | "To the Gates" | Ovidiu Cinazan, Olivia Yapp, Greg Lamar, Meng Angel Li | History | |
| 2016 |
Game of Thrones | "Battle of the Bastards" (Retaking Winterfell) | Dominic Hellier, Morgan Jones, Thijs Noij, Caleb Thompson | HBO |
| Black Sails | "XX." (Sailing Ships) | Michael Melchiorre, Kevin Bouchez, Heather Hoyland, John Brennick | Starz | |
| Game of Thrones | "Battle of the Bastards" (Meereen City) | Thomas Montminy-Brodeur, Patrick David, Michael Crane, Joe Salazar | HBO | |
| "The Door" (Beyond the Wall) | Eduardo Diaz, Anibal Del Busto, Angel Rico, Sonsoles Lopez-Aranguren | |||
| 2017 |
Game of Thrones | "The Spoils of War" (Loot Train Attack) | Dom Hellier, Thijs Noij, Edwin Holdsworth, Giacomo Matteucci | HBO |
| Game of Thrones | "Beyond the Wall" (Frozen Lake) | Mark Kolpack, Sabrina Arnold, David Rey, Kevin Yuille, Gary D'Amico | HBO | |
| "Eastwatch" | Oscar Perea, Santiago Martos, David Esteve, Michael Crane | |||
| Star Trek: Discovery | Phil Prates, Rex Alerta, John Dinh, Karen Cheng | CBS All Access | ||
| 2018 |
Lost in Space | "Diamonds in the Sky" (Crash Site Rescue) | David Wahlberg, Douglas Roshamn, Sofie Ljunggren, Fredrik Lönn | Netflix |
| Altered Carbon | Jean-François Leroux, Reece Sanders, Stephen Bennett, Laraib Atta | Netflix | ||
| The Handmaid's Tale | "June" | Winston Lee, Gwen Zhang, Xi Luo, Kevin Quatman | Hulu | |
| Silicon Valley | "Artificial Emotional Intelligence" (Fiona) | Tim Carras, Michael Eng, Shiying Li, Bill Parker | HBO | |
| 2019 |
Game of Thrones | "The Long Night" (Dragon Ground Battle) | Mark Richardson, Darren Christie, Nathan Abbott, Owen Longstaff | HBO |
| Game of Thrones | "The Bells" | Sean Heuston, Scott Joseph, James Elster, Corinne Teo | HBO | |
| Stranger Things | "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt" (Starcourt Mall Battle) | Simon Lehembre, Andrew Kowbell, Karim El-Masry, Miklos Mesterhazy | Netflix | |
| Watchmen | "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" (Looking Glass) | Nathaniel Larouche, Iyi Tubi, Perunika Yorgova, Mitchell Beaton | HBO | |
2020s
| Year | Program | Episode(s) | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 |
Lovecraft Country | "Strange Case" (Chrysalis) | Viktor Andersson, Linus Lindblom, Mattias Sandelius, Crawford Reilly | HBO |
| The Mandalorian | "Chapter 9: The Marshal" | Nicolas Caillier, Simon Rafin, Siang Kee Poh, Simon Marinof | Disney+ | |
| "Chapter 10: The Passenger" | TC Harrison, Tami Carter, Jaume Creus Costabella, Shane Davidson | |||
| "Chapter 15: The Believer" | Peter Demarest, Christopher Balog, Shawn Mason, David Wahlberg | |||
| 2021 |
Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in an Episode | |||
| Loki | "Lamentis" ("Shuroo City Destruction") | Paul Chapman, Tom Truscott, Biagio Figliuzzi, Attila Szalma | Disney+ | |
| The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | "New World Order" | Nathan Abbot, Beck Veitch, Markus Reithoffer, James Aldous | Disney+ | |
| WandaVision | "Previously On" ("The Hex") | Charles Labbé, Xavier Fourmond, Reuben Barkataki, Vanessa Delarosbil | ||
| "The Series Finale" (Goodbye, Vision) | David Zaretti, Bimpe Alliu, Michael Duong, Mark Pascoe | |||
| 2022 | ||||
| Love, Death and Robots | "Night of the Mini Dead" | Tim Emeis, José Maximiano, Renaud Tissandié, Nacere Guerouaf | Netflix | |
| House of the Dragon | "The Black Queen" ("Dance of Dragons") | Kevin Friederichs, Sean Raffel, Florian Franke, Andreas Steinlein | HBO | |
| The Book of Boba Fett | "From the Desert Comes a Stranger" | Peter Demarest, Tami Carter, Brandon McNaughton, Sirak Ghebremusse | Disney+ | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | "Udûn" (Tirharad Cavalry Charge) | Sornalingam P, Ian Copeland, Nessa Mingfang Zhang, Yuvaraj S | Amazon Prime Video | |
Programs with multiple awards
- 7 awards
- Game of Thrones (HBO)
Programs with multiple nominations
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