Awards Season 2025: VES Award Winners Revealed!
The latest news about our nominated shows.
The latest news about our nominated shows.
We’re so proud to see our talented Dune: Part Two crew receive 4 VES Awards 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!
WINNER - CATEGORY 12: OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE The Arrakeen Basin – Daniel Rhein, Daniel Anton Fernandez, Marc James Austin, Christopher Anciaume
WINNER - CATEGORY 15: OUTSTANDING CG CINEMATOGRAPHY The Grounded Cinematography of Arrakis – Greig Fraser, Xin Steve Guo, Sandra Murta, Ben Wiggs
WINNER - CATEGORY 17: OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE Atomic Explosions and Wormriding – Nicholas Papworth, Sandy la Tourelle, Lisa Nolan, Christopher Phillips
WINNER - CATEGORY 20: OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE Wormriding, Geidi Prime, and the Final Battle – Christopher Rickard, Francesco Dell’Anna, Paul Chapman, Ryan Wing
Congratulations to all our winners and to our clients and collaborators, and to all the other teams that won last night!
We're thrilled to announce that our DNEG VFX team has won the Critics Choice Award for 'Best Visual Effects' for Dune: Part Two. Congratulations to the entire team on this incredible achievement!
The Critics Choice Awards are given annually to honour the finest in cinematic and television achievement.
Best Visual Effects:
A huge congratulations to all of the night’s winners and nominees!
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:
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…
The winners of the 97th Academy Awards® will be announced at the Oscars® ceremony, scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 2nd.
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:
The official BAFTA ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 16th! Check out the full list of categories and nominees, click here.
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 our work on Dune: Part Two!
Congratulations to our team for this honour, and to all other nominees and winners of the evening!
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!
Presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, the Saturn Awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film.
We’re delighted to share that at the 52nd annual Saturn Awards ceremony held on February 2nd, Dune: Part Two received the award for ‘Best Film Visual / Special Effects’!
Huge congratulations to our team, and to all the other winners on the night!
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.
Best Visual Effects
Stay tuned!