The Visual Effects Society, which is the entertainment industry's only society representing the full breadth of visual effects, has shown that Alfonso Cuarón space drama “Gravity” is bringing about as much buzz among vfx pros as it is among viewers around the world.
By the time the film received the award for best visual effects, it had already received 5 of the 6 awards it was selected for. “Gravity” just turned out to be an enormous strength to defeat, even for one of the best visual effects films of the year like “Pacific Rim” and “Iron Man 3”. However, only “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” edged out “Gravity”, as its breathtaking dragon “Smaug” defeated the animated George Clooney under the category of best animated character in a live-action film.
“It’s been a great evening. it’s great to be honored by your peers, especially in a year of such great vfx work. I thank Clooney and Sandra Bullock for their enthusiasm and charisma to perform in very strange space machines, as well as the now officially visionary Alfonso Cuaron for his courage in making a film which on paper seemed crazy in many ways, for his courage in trusting us to be such a big part of it when there was nothing there, and really for making such a great film,” said “Gravity” vfx manager Tim Webber.
Disney animated film “Frozen” grabbed 4 awards, counting award for exceptional animation in an animated film. HBO TV show “Game of Thrones” won 3 awards counting award for episode “Valar Doharis” for outstanding vfx for in a broadcast show, while “Banshee” took the supporting f/x prize and “Peta: 98% Human” grabbed 3 awards.
While receiving the Visionary Award, Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron himself had spoke humorously about being termed as a visionary. “There’s a cautionary tale: So often you see ‘From visionary director.’ Usually, they suck, those movies,” he said. “How many visionaries does it take to change a light bulb? It doesn’t matter, because the light bulb will never change. Visionary is synonymous with ‘Can’t execute.’”
It was an appositely cheeky part of a slack, tranquil and somewhat disorganized evening at the Beverly Hilton. Patton Oswalt started the show by jokingly welcoming all the guests to “The Gravity Awards” and certainly, there was slight anxiety about most of the movie categories.
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