Awards Season 2025: Oscar® nominees revealed!

Awards season has arrived, and we’re delighted to share the latest news about our nominated projects!

Academy Awards® Nominations

We’re extremely excited to share that Dune: Part Two has been nominated for the ‘Best Visual Effects’ Oscar® at the 2025 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards. The selected titles were determined by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee.

As lead VFX partner on Denis Villeneuve’s visionary sequel, we couldn’t be more proud of our team’s incredible work. See the full list of nominees here:

Best Visual Effects:

- Dune: Part Two
- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked

Congratulations to our DNEG VFX team on this well-deserved recognition. And good luck to everyone that received a nomination today – it has been another year of amazing visual effects! Coming up next…

97th Academy Awards

The winners of the 97th Academy Awards® will be announced at the Oscars® ceremony, scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 2nd.

BAFTA Nominations

The 2025 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) announced their nominations today, and we’re thrilled to see Dune: Part Two, included in the running for ‘Special Visual Effects’!

Special Visual Effects:

- Dune: Part Two
- Better Man
- Gladiator II
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked

The official BAFTA ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 16th! Check out the full list of categories and nominees, click here.

VES Award Nominations

We’re so proud to see our talented teams receive 8 VES Award Nominations across 8 categories this year!

The VES Awards are hosted each year to celebrate the outstanding work and contributions made by the VFX Supervisors, Producers and Artists who helped shape the visual effects landscape and bring magic to our screens!

Here are our nominated shows along with a full list of the nominees for each:

DUNE: PART TWO

CATEGORY 1: OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
Nominees: Paul Lambert, Brice Parker, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer

CATEGORY 12: OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
The Arrakeen Basin – Nominees: Daniel Rhein, Daniel Anton Fernandez, Marc James Austin, Christopher Anciaume

CATEGORY 15: OUTSTANDING CG CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grounded Cinematography of Arrakis – Nominees: Greig Fraser, Xin Steve Guo, Sandra Murta, Ben Wiggs

CATEGORY 16: OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT
The Harkonnen Harvester – Nominees: Andrew Hodgson, Tim Russell, Erik Lehmann, Louie Cho

CATEGORY 17: OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
Atomic Explosions and Wormriding – Nominees: Nicholas Papworth, Sandy la Tourelle, Lisa Nolan, Christopher Phillips

CATEGORY 20: OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE
Wormriding, Geidi Prime, and the Final Battle – Nominees: Chris Rickard, Francesco Dell’anna, Paul Chapman, Ryan Wing

MASTERS OF THE AIR

CATEGORY 5: OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE
Part Three; The Regensburg-Schweinfurt Mission – Nominees: Stephen Rosenbaum, Bruce Franklin, Xavier Matia Bernasconi, David Andrews, Neil Corbould

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER SEASON 2

CATEGORY 14: OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
The Siege of Eregion – Nominees: Yordan Petrov, Bertrand Cabrol, Léa Desrozier, Karan Dhandha

Congratulations to all our nominees and to our clients and collaborators, and to all the other projects that were nominated today! The VES Awards ceremony is set for Tuesday, February 11th.

BAFTA Longlist

The 2025 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) announced their longlist today, and we’re thrilled to see two DNEG-led films, Dune: Part Two and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, included in the running for ‘Special Visual Effects’!

Special Visual Effects:

- Dune: Part Two
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Alien: Romulus
- Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
- Better Man
- Civil War
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Gladiator II
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked

And congratulations to our DNEG Animation crews for their work on That Christmas, which has been included in both the ‘Animated Film’ and ‘Children’s and Family Film’ categories!

Animated Film:

- That Christmas
- Despicable Me 4
- Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Moana 2
- Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot

Children’s and Family Film:

- That Christmas
- Flow
- Kensuke’s Kingdom
- Piece By Piece
- Spellbound
- Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
- Young Woman and the Sea

The official BAFTA nominations are announced Wednesday, January 15th!

Critics Choice Award Nominations

The Critics Choice Awards are given annually to honour the finest in cinematic and television achievement. We’re so proud to see our DNEG VFX talent represented in this year’s nominations. Congratulations to our Dune: Part Two crew on this well-deserved nomination!

Best Visual Effects

- Dune: Part Two
- Gladiator II
- Wicked
- Better Man
- The Substance
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

The winners of the 30th Critics Choice Awards will be announced Sunday, January 12th. To see the full list of categories and nominees, click here.

The Astra Awards

The Hollywood Creative Alliance Astra Awards were held on Sunday, December 8 in Los Angeles – and DNEG brought home the award for ‘Best Visual Effects’ for its work on Dune: Part Two!

Congratulations to our team for this honour, and to all other nominees and winners of the evening!

American Cinematheque’s Tribute To The Crafts

Dedicated to those who are at the very heart of filmmaking and have exhibited extraordinary work behind the camera over the past year, American Cinematheque’s Tribute to The Crafts has selected Dune: Part Two for the Visual Effects category this year!

Congratulations to the honourees – our very DNEG VFX Supervisors Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe, alongside Paul Lambert and Gerd Nefzer – and to our entire Dune: Part Two team!

The Saturn Awards Nominations

The Saturn Awards are presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film!

We were thrilled to see our team’s work recognized in the below category:

Best Visual/Special Effects

- Dune: Part Two
- Alien: Romulus
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Godzilla Minus One
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Twisters

Congratulations to our team, and to all other nominees! The winners will be announced February 2, 2025.

The Satellite Awards Nominations

The Satellite Awards are annual awards given by the International Press Academy that are commonly noted in entertainment industry journals and blogs! We were delighted to spot our team’s work on Dune: Part Two recognized with a nomination in the ‘Best Visual Effects’ category.