# Live'Stream@ 21st Visual Effects Society Awards 2023 <Free 2023> The 21st Visual Effects Society Awards is an awards ceremony presented by the Visual Effects Society to recognize the best in visual effects in film, television and other media in 2022. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2023, and the ceremony will take place on February 15, 2023. <a href="https://procastrtv.com/awards/ves?ha"><img class="alignnone wp-image-215 size-medium" src="https://www.livezsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Watch-Now-Button-1-1-300x89.webp" alt="" width="300" height="89" /></a> The Visual Effects Society announced its nominees for the 21st Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in features, animation, television, commercials, and video games and the VFX Supervisors, VFX Producers and hands-on Artists who bring this work to life. ILM received 18 nominations across 11 projects in a variety of categories. Nominated feature film projects include Jurassic World: Dominion, The Batman, The Fablemans, The Pale Blue Eye, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Avatar: The Way of Water. In the episodic space nominees include Andor, The Book of Boba Fett, and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power each received nominations and finally, in the category of Special Venue Attractions, ILM projects received three of the five nominations for work on Star Wars: Galactic Star Cruiser, ABBA Voyage, and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Awards will be presented at the 21st Annual VES Awards on February 15, 2023 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. ASIFA Hollywood also announced the nominations for the Annie Awards where ILM’s work on Jurassic World: Dominion was nominated for Best Character Animation in the Live Action category. ASIFA also announced that The Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement will be presented to the Visual Effects Reference Platform, initially developed by Disney Animation’s Nick Cannon and ILM’s own Francois Chardavoine to improve compatibility between digital content creation apps. The 50th Annual Annie Awards will take place in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 25th, 2023. The VES Awards 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 in 2022. We’re proud to see our work on Death On The Nile, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Slumberland receive four VES Award Nominations across four categories this year! Congratulations to all our nominees, and to all the other projects that were nominated today! You can find the full list here. CATEGORY 2: OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE Death On The Nile – Nominees: George Murphy, Claudia Dehmel, Mathieu Raynault, Jonathan Bowen, David Watkins CATEGORY 4: OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power; Udûn – Nominees: Jason Smith, Ron Ames, Nigel Sumner, Tom Proctor, Dean Clarke CATEGORY 12: OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE Slumberland; The wondrous Cuban Hotel Dream – Nominees: Marc Austin, Daniël Dimitri Veder, Pavan Rajesh Uppu, Casey Gorton CATEGORY 21: OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN AN EPISODE The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power; Tirharad Cavalry Charge – Nominees: Ian Copeland, Sornalingam P, Nessa Zhang Mingfang, Yuvaraj Shanmugham