Tintin leading Visual Effects Awards
Steven Spielberg Spielberg’s animated film has received six nominations, three of which are included in the category for Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Motion Picture.
Among the other films nominated in the special effects category to be awarded at the Beverly Hills-based Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on February 7 include sequels Transformers: Dark of The Moon, Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, as well as Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Crime programme Boardwalk Empire tops the television categories with a total of four nominations, just beating out another of cable television network HBO’s popular series in medieval fantasy show Game of Thrones by one.
Graphic novel legend Stan Lee, meanwhile, will receive the VES 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Additionally, visual effects innovator and filmmaker Douglas Trumbull, who has worked on movies such as Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Andromeda Strain and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, is to be given the Georges Méliès Award.
