Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Summer Sequel - H 2014

The Visual Effects Society gave 'Game of Thrones' the most nominations in TV.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes earned five nominations, including in the top category of outstanding visual effects in a VFX-driven feature, leading the field in the feature competition of the 13th annual Visual Effects Society Awards, which will be presented Feb. 4 at the Beverly HIlton.

Rounding out the nominees in the outstanding visual effects in a VFX-driven feature category are Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, Interstellar, Maleficent and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Nominees in the category of 'supporting' VFX are Birdman, Divergent, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game and Unbroken.

Watch more Andy Serkis Reveals 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Secrets in Blu-ray Extra (Exclusive)

Since the first VES Awards were handed out in 2002, the winner of the top category has gone on to win the visual effects Oscar nine of the past 12 times. Once the Oscar went to the winner of the VES category for outstanding supporting visual effects (Hugo).

Following Apes' five nominations, The Hobbit and Interstellar are close behind with four each. X-Men and Edge of Tomorrow have three apiece.

The VFX on both Apes and The Hobbit were led by Weta Digital, and Joe Letteri, a four-time Oscar winner and Weta's senior VFX supervisor, is a double nominee in the top category (should both films earn VFX Oscar nominations on Thursday, he would be a double Oscar nominee.) Interstellar was led by Double Negative and its Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Franklin (Inception).

In the feature animation categories, Big Hero 6 and The Boxtrolls earned five nominations apiece, and How to Train Your Dragon 2 was close behind with four.

Read more CES: Fox Is Bullish on Virtual Reality, But Is It the "Real Deal" for Hollywood?

In the re-named category for outstanding performance of an animated character in a live action feature, the ballot includes the names of the animators of Apes' Caesar and Koba, Guardians' Rocket and Maleficent's Thistlewit.

The virtual cinematography category underscores the relationship between cinematography and VFX; the nominees for Edge of Tomorrow include Oscar-winning director of photography Dion Beebe; Interstellar includes cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema and X-Men, Newton Thomas Sigel. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth nominee in that category.

Game of Thrones leads the field in television with five nominations including the top TV category for outstanding VFX.

Read more 'Interstellar,' 'Boyhood' Producers on Getting Fired, Toughest Decisions and How to Give Rupert Murdoch Bad News

VES announced a change to the Lifetime Achievement Award, reporting: “Due to a change in his production schedule, Ridley Scott will unfortunately not be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this time; we look forward to honoring him in the future for his enormous contributions to filmed entertainment."

As previously announced, the Vision Award will be presented to J.J. Abrams.

A complete list of nominees follows:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Joe Letteri

Ryan Stafford

Matt Kutcher

Dan Lemmon

Hannah Blanchini

Guardians of the Galaxy

Stephane Ceretti

Susan Pickett

Jonathan Fawkner

Nicolas Aithadi

Paul Corbould

Interstellar

Paul Franklin

Kevin Elam

Ann Podlozny

Andrew Lockley

Scott Fisher

Maleficent

Carey Villegas

Barrie Hemsley

Adam Valdez

Kelly Port

Michael Dawson

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Joe Letteri

David Conley

Eric Saindon

Kevin Sherwood

Steve Ingram

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Richard Stammers

Blondel Aidoo

Lou Pecora

Anders Langlands

Cameron Waldbauer

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Ara Khanikian

Ivy Agregan

Sebastien Moreau

Isabelle Langlois

Divergent

Jim Berney

Greg Baxter

Matt Dessero

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Gabriel Sanchez

Jenny Foster

Simon Weisse

Jan Burda

The Imitation Game

Stuart Bullen

Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor

Simon Rowe

Unbroken

Bill George

Steve Gaub

Erin Dusseault

Dave Morley

Brian Cox

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Big Hero 6

Don Hall

Chris Williams

Roy Conli

Zach Parrish

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Bonnie Arnold

Dean DeBlois

Dave Walvoord

Simon Otto

Rio 2

Carlos Saldanha

Bruce Anderson

John C. Donkin

Kirk Garfield

The Boxtrolls

Travis Knight

Anthony Stacchi

Graham Annable

Brad Schiff

The Lego Movie

Chris McKay

Amber Naismith

Jim Dodd

David Williams

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program

Constantine; A Feast of Friends

Kevin Blank

Elizabeth Castro

Yafei Wu

Chris LeDoux

Game of Thrones; The Children

Joe Bauer

Steve Kullback

Stuart Brisdon

Thomas Schelesny

Sven Martin

Hemlock Grove

Matt Whelan

Chris Brown

Todd Masters

Johnathan Banta

Eric McAvoy

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Mark Kolpack

Sabrina Arnold

Gary D Amico

Kevin Lingenfelser

David Beedon

The Flash

Armen Kevorkian

James Baldanzi

Jeremy Jozwick

Andranik

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program

American Horror Story; Freak Show; Edward Mordrake, Part 2

Jason Piccioni

Jason Spratt

Mike Kirylo

Justin Ball

Eric Roberts

Black Sails, Episode 1

Erik Henry

Annemarie Griggs

Paul Graff

George Murphy

Crossbones

Kevin Blank

Ron Pogue

Andy Weder

Niklas Jacobson

Mans Bjorklund

Penny Dreadful; Séance

James Cooper

Bill Halliday

Sarah McMurdo

Lorne Kwechansky

Ripper Street; Whitechapel Terminus

Ed Bruce

Alan Collins

Joe Courtis

John O'Connell

Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game

Alien: Isolation

Jude Bond

Al Hope

Howard Rayner

Oriol SansGomez

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Yi-chao Sandy Lin-Chiang

Joseph Salud

Demetrius Leal

Dave Blizard

inFAMOUS: Second Son

Matt Vainio

Horia Dociu

Jason Connell

Bill Rockenbeck

Sunset Overdrive

Jacinda Chew

Bryan Intihar

Grant Hollis

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare; Discover Your Power

Paul O'Shea

Michael Wigart

Andy Boyd

Jacob Montgomery

Benoit Mannequin

Destiny; Become Legend

Eric Barba

Carla Attanasio

Greg Teegarden

Dan Akers

ESA; Ambition

Jakub Knapik

Tomasz Wachnik

Lukasz Sobisz

Michal Skrzypiec

General Electric; Childlike Imagination

Benjamin Walsh

Jennie Burnett

Brian Burke

Dominik Bauch

SSE; Maya

Neil Davies

Alex Hammond

Jorge Montiel

Beth Vander

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project

Hubei in the Air

Andrew Roberts

Claudia Lachnitt

Yas Takata

Boris Schmidt

Sebastian Butenberg

Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Torquee de Remy

Tony Apodaca

Marianne McLean

Gilles Martin

Edwin Chang

Mark Mine

Star Journey

Adam Watkins

Viktorija Ogureckaja

Thilo Ewers

Omid Arzhang

Yas Takata

The Hogwarts Express

Chris Shaw

Rich Yeomans

Steven Godfrey

Peter Jopling

John Richardson

The Lost Temple

John Hughes

Walt Jones

Brent Young

Michael Smith

Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Caesar

Paul Story

Eteuati Tema

Andrea Merlo

Emiliano Padovani

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Koba

Daniel Barrett

Alessandro Bonora

Mark Edward Allen

Masaya Suzuki

Guardians of the Galaxy; Rocket

Kevin Spruce

Rachel Williams

Laurie Brugger

Mark Wilson

Maleficent; Thistlewit

Darren Hendler

Matthias Wittmann

Jeremy Buttell

Elliot Rosenstein

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Big Hero 6; Baymax

Colin Eckart

John Kahwaty

Zach Parrish

Zack Petroc

How to Train Your Dragon 2; Hiccup

Jakob Hjort Jensen

Fabio Lignini

Stephen Candell

Hongseo Park

Rio 2; Gabi

Jason Sadler

Ignacio Barrios

Drew Winey

Diana Diriwaechter

The Boxtrolls; Archibald Snatcher

Travis Knight

Jason Stalman

Michael Laubach

Kyle Williams

Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game

Freesat Freetime; Sheldon

Russell Dodgson

Grant Walker

Juan Sebastian Nino

Amar Chundavadra

Game of Thrones; Drogon

Philip Meyer

Thomas Kutschera

Igor Majdandzic

Mark Spindler

John Lewis; Monty the Penguin

Diarmid Harrison Murray

Tim Van Hussen

Amir Bazazi

Georgios Kyparissous

SSE; Maya

Jorge Montiel

Alex Hammond

Daniel Kmet

Philippe Moine

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Triskelion Headquarters

Johan Thorngren

Greg Kegel

Quentin Marmier

Luis Calero

Interstellar; Tesseract

Tom Bracht

Graham Page

Thomas Døhlen

Kirsty Clark

Lucy; Times Square

Richard Bluff

Steve Bevins

Steve DeLuca

Tiffany Yung

Noah; Antediluvian Earth

Grady Cofer

Dan Wheaton

Susumu Yukuhiro

Ben O'Brien

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Big Hero 6; Into the Portal

Ralf Habel

David Hutchins

Michael Kaschalk

Olun Riley

How to Train Your Dragon 2; Oasis

Sun Yoon

Liang-Yuan Wang

Ted Davis

Shannon Thomas

The Book of Life; Magical Land of the Remembered

Glo Minaya

Amy Chen

Sean McEwan

Jeff Masters

The Boxtrolls; Boxtroll Cavern

Curt Enderle

Rob DeSue

Emily Greene

Jesse Gregg

Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game

Coca-Cola; Snowy Forest

Tom Bardwell

Kevin Ives

Kyle Cody

Jimmy Gass

Game of Thrones; Braavos Establisher

Rene Borst

Christian Zilliken

Jan Burda

Steffen Metzner

Penny Dreadful; Séance

Mathew Borrett

Lorne Kwechansky

Graham Day

Jason Gougeon

War Thunder; Battlefield

Andrey Bogdanov

Mikhail Datcik

Dmitriy Ovcharenko

Ekaterina Bogdanova

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal/Live Action Motion Media Project

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Keith Miller

Jonathan Paquin

Alessandro Saponi

David Houghton Williams

Edge of Tomorrow; Beach and Paris Attacks

Albert Cheng

Jose Enrique Astacio Jr.

Michael Havart

Dion Beebe

Interstellar; Tesseract

Faraz Hameed

Stephen Painter

Hoyte van Hoytema

Dorian Knapp

X-Men: Days of Future Past; Kitchen Scene

Austin Bonang

Casey Schatz

Dennis Jones

Newton Thomas Sigel

Outstanding Models in any Motion Media Project

Big Hero 6; City of San Fransokyo

Brett Achorn

Minh Duong

Scott Watanabe

Larry Wu

The Boxtrolls; Mecha-Drill

Tom McClure

Oliver Jones

Raul Martinez

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies; Laketown

Leslie Chan

Alastair Mayer

Niklas Preston

Justin Stockton

Transformers: Age of Extinction; Knightship

Landis Fields

John Goodson

Anthony Rispoli

Dae Han

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Helicarrier Broadside and Crash

Dan Pearson

Sheldon Serrao

Jose Burgos

Eric Jennings

Edge of Tomorrow; Destruction and Sand

Steve Avoujageli

Pawel Grochola

Atsushi Ikarashi

Paul Waggoner

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Jon Allitt

David Caeiro

Ronnie Menahem

X-Men: Days of Future Past; Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen

Adam Paschke

Premamurti Paetsch

Sam Hancock

Timmy Lundin

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Big Hero 6

Henrik Falt

David Hutchins

Michael Kaschalk

John Kosnik

How to Train Your Dragon 2; The Battle

Spencer Knapp

Baptiste Van Opstal

Lucas Janin

Jason Mayer

The Boxtrolls

Kent Estep

Peter Stuart

Ralph Procida

Timur Khodzhaev

The Lego Movie

Carsten Kolve

Jayandera Danappal

Matt Ebb

Miles Green

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

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Dominique Vidal

Isabelle Perin-Leduc

Sandrine Lurde

Alexandre Lerouge

DirecTV; Landing

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

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Christoph Salzmann

Florian Schroeder

Quentin Hema

Simone Riginelli

Edge of Tomorrow; Beach

Craig Wentworth

Matthew Welford

Marie Victoria Denoga

Frank Fieser

Interstellar; Water

Raphael Hamm

Isaac Layish

Sebastian Von Overheidt

Tristan Myles

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Simon Jung

Ben Roberts

Matthew Adams

Jordan Schilling

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program

American Horror Story: Freak Show; Edward Mordrake, Part 2

Tommy Tran

JV Pike

Rob Lutz

Matt Lefferts

Game of Thrones; Wight Attack

Keegan Douglas

Okan Ataman

Brian Fortune

David Lopez

Game of Thrones; The Watchers on the Wall

Dan Breckwoldt

Martin Furman

Sophie Marfleet

Eric Andrusyszyn

The Knick; Abigail's Nose

Vance Miller

Aaron Raff

John Bair

Rebecca Dunn

Vikings; Invasion

Ovidiu Cinazan

Gary Couto

Doug Cook

Angel Li

Outstanding Compositing in a in a Photoreal/Live Action Commercial

Destiny Become Legend

Dan Akers

Nitant Karnik

Matt Smith

Kym Olsen

Kia The Truth

Paul Lambert

Dan Akers

Carlos Morales

Holly Horter

Nike Hypervenom "Mirrors ft. Neymar Jr."

Dan Williams

Daniel Morris

Ilia Mokhtareizadeh

Greg Spencer

SSE

Neil Davies

Leonardo Costa

Gianluca DiMarco

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project

Deep Dance

Marco Erbrich

Christoph Westphal

Vincent Langer

Dragon Clan

Yahui Fan

Sheng Xu

Murphy

Bruno LeVeque

Xavier Lafarge

Wrapped

Roman Kaelin

Falko Paeper

Florian Wittmann

Paolo Tamburrino