The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society, starting in 2012. It is awarded to visual effects artists for their work in effects simulations.

Winners & Nominees

2010s

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program

Year Project Episode(s) Nominees Network
2012
[1][2]		 Guinness: Cloud Tom Bussell, Neil Davies
Last Resort "Captain" Matt Von Brock, Bruce Coy, Junaid Farooq, Aldo Ruggiero ABC
Nike: Biomorph Aladino Debert, Eric Ebling, Ken Mitchel Jones
Nissan Altima: Wouldn't It Be Cool Dale Fay, Laura Jones Turner, Nathan Matsuda, Andrew Orloff
2013
[3][4]		 PETA: 98% Human Vincent Baertsoen, Jimmy Gass, Dave Barosin
PlayStation: Perfect Day Joji Tsuruga, Gavin Wellsman, Nick Couret, Hassan Taimur
Toyota Avalon: Perfect Day Ed Laag, Eugene Gauran, Josh Hatton
Toy Story of Terror! Paul Aichele, Kiki Mei Kee Poh, Andrew Coats ABC

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game

Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network
2014
[5][6]		 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Dominique Vidal, Isabelle Perin-Leduc, Sandrine Lurde, Alexandre Lerouge Fox
DirecTV Jeffrey Dates, Jimmy Gass, Iwan Zwarts, Ryan Coster
SSE: Maya Alex Hammond, Peter Agg, Sam Driscoll, Jimmy Gass
Vikings "Invasion" (Storm Sequence) Jeremy Dineen, Eric Lacroix, Kyle Yoneda, Norman Ran History

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project

Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network
2015
[7][8]		 Game of Thrones "Hardhome" David Ramos, Antonio Lado, Piotr Weiss, Félix Bergés HBO
Halo 5: The Hunt Begins Vladislav Tushevskiy, Tomas Zaveckas, Sho Hasegawa, Sergey Kosarev
Lipton: The Revolution in Tea Jonathan Westley, Tom Raynor, Christos Parliaros
SSE: Pier Peter Agg, Sam Driscoll, Matthew Fuller
2016
[9][10]		 Game of Thrones "Battle of the Bastards" (Meereen City) Thomas Hullin, Dominik Kirouac, James Dong, Xavier Fourmond HBO
Game of Thrones "Battle of the Bastards" Kevin Blom, Sasmit Ranadive, Wanghua Huang, Benjamin Andersen HBO
John Lewis: Buster the Boxer Diarmid Harrison-Murray, Tushar Kewlani, Radu Ciubotariu, Ben Thomas
Sky: Q Michael Hunault, Gareth Bell, Paul Donnellan, Josh Curtis
2017
[11][12]		 Game of Thrones "The Dragon and the Wolf" (Wall Destruction) Thomas Hullin, Dominik Kirouac, Sylvain Nouveau, Nathan Arbuckle HBO
Game of Thrones "Beyond the Wall" (Frozen Lake) Manuel Ramírez, Oscar Marquez Chicharro, Pablo Hernández-Meléndez, David Gacituaga HBO
Heineken: The Trailblazers Christian Bohm, Andreu Lucio Archs, Carsten Keller, Steve Oakley
Outlander "Eye of the Storm" (Stormy Seas) Jason Mortimer, Navin Pinto, Greg Teegarden, Steven Ong Starz
2018
[13][14]		 Altered Carbon Philipp Kratzer, Daniel Fernandez, Xavier Lestourneaud, Andrea Rosa Netflix
Lost in Space (The Getaway) Juri Bryan, Will Elsdale, Hugo Medda, Maxime Marline Netflix
Lost in Space "Impact" (Jupiter is Falling) Denys Shchukin, Heribert Raab, Michael Billette, Jaclyn Stauber
The Man in the High Castle "Jahr Null" (Statue of Liberty Destruction) Saber Jlassi, Igor Zanic, Nick Chamberlain, Christopher Parks Amazon
2019
[15][16]		 Stranger Things "Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum" (Melting Tom/Bruce) Nathan Arbuckle, Christian Gaumond, James Dong, Aleksandr Starkov Netflix
Game of Thrones "The Bells" Marcel Kern, Paul Fuller, Ryo Sakaguchi, Thomas Hartmann HBO
Hennessy XO: The Seven Worlds Selcuk Ergen, Radu Ciubotariu, Andreu Lucio Archs, Vincent Ullmann
Lost in Space "Precipice" (Water Planet) Juri Bryan, Hugo Medda, Kristian Olsson, John Perrigo Netflix
The Mandalorian "Chapter 2: The Child" (Mud Horn) Xavier Martin, Ian Baxter, Fabio Siino, Andrea Rosa Disney+

2020s

Year Program Episode(s) Nominees Network/Distributor
2020
[17]		 Lovecraft Country "Strange Case" (Chrysalis) Federica Foresti, Johan Gabrielsson, Hugo Medda, Andreas Krieg HBO
PlayStation: "Play Has No Limits" Tom Raynor, Andreu Lucio, Martin Aufinger, Platon Filimonov Sony
The Mandalorian "Chapter 9: The Marshal" (Krayt Dragon) HuaiYuan Teh, Don Wong, Mathieu Chardonnet, Prashanth Bhagavan Disney+
Tales from the Loop (Loretta's House) Dominik Kirouac, Gaël Chopin, Sylvain Nouveau, Laurent Pancaccini Amazon
2021
[18] 		Foundation (Collapse of the Galactic Empire) Giovanni Casadei, Mikel Zuloaga, Steven Moor, Louis Manjarres Apple TV+
Loki "Journey Into Mystery" Alioth Cloud, George Kuruvilla, Menno Dijkstra, Matthew Hanger, Jiyong Shin Disney+
The Nevers David Stopford, Michele Stocco, Mike Hsu, Justin Mitchell HBO
WandaVision All-New Halloween Spooktacular! (Vision's Destruction) Sylvain Nouveau, Hakim Harrouche, Omar Meradi, Laurent Meste Disney+
2022
[19] 		The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Water and Magma) "Udûn" Rick Hankins, Aron Bonar, Branko Grujcic, Laurent Kermel Amazon Prime Video
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities "Graveyard Rats" Amit Khanna, Oleg Memukhin, Mario Marengo, Josh George Netflix
Stranger Things 4 (Hawkins Destructive Fissures) Ahmad Ghourab, Gavin Templer, Rachel Ajorque, Eri Ohno Netflix
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Volcano Destruction) "Udûn" Kurt Debens, Hamish Bell, Robert Kelly, Gabriel Roccisano Amazon Prime Video

Programs with multiple awards

3 awards

Programs with multiple nominations

References

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