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VES Awards

Mar 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman, Photos by Tony Donaldson

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Visual Wizards Enjoy a Big Night ...

Many of the industry’s leading artists attended and were honored at the Visual Effects Society awards dinner on Feb. 18 at the Hollywood Palladium. That night, George Lucas received his Lifetime Achievement Award (for an interview with Lucas about visual effects and digital filmmaking, see page 18). Here are a few of the winners.

Presenter Richard Edlund with VES award-winner Jim Rygiel, co-visual effects supervisor on The Lord of the Rings trilogy at the VES Awards cocktail party.

Richard Taylor, president of WETA Digital and head of the model/prosthetics/miniature departments on The Lord of the Rings trilogy shows off his VES Award just days before bringing home more Oscar gold.

John Gaeta (left) and George Borshukov show off their VES Awards for the "U-Cap Facial Photography" system they developed and used, along with fellow winners Kim Libreri and Paul Ryan, on The Matrix Reloaded.

Outgoing Visual Effects Society executive director Tom Atkin holds the first-ever Board of Directors VES Award, given to honor his contributions building the organization.

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