A film whose battles left hordes of primates dead and another that celebrates the Day of the Dead were the big winners at tonight’s 16th annual VES Awards.

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Fox’s War for the Planet of the Apes took four prizes including the marquee Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. And Disney/Pixar’s Oscar front-runner Coco dominated the toon brigade, also scoring four statuettes. Check the Visual Effects Society’s full winners list below.

Blade Runner 2049 — which came into the gala tied with Planet of the Apes with a leading seven nominations — was the only other multiple winner of the film side, taking two trophies. Dunkirk and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 picked up one win apiece at the Beverly Hilton ceremony hosted for a seventh time by Patton Oswalt.

The winner of VES’ top film award has gone on to score the Visual Effects Oscar 10 out of 15 times including The Jungle Book last year. But the two previous VES champs – 2016’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 2015’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, whose sequels did battle tonight – both missed out on the Academy Award.

Speaking of the Disney/Lucasfilm franchise, 2017’s top domestic grosser Star Wars: The Last Jedi came in with four nominations and left the Hilton with … bupkis. Including last year’s surprising VES shutout for spinoff pic Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, that means the behemoth series is 0-for-11 nominations in the past two years. This after The Force Awakens dominated the 2016 VES Awards.

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Also shut out tonight was Despicable Me 3, the top-grossing toon of 2017 that came in with five nominations.

The big winner on the TV side, natch, was HBO’s Game of Thrones, which laid waste to its rivals again this year. Starz’s Black Sails managed to win for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode — a category in which Thrones was not nominated.

Mark Hamill was a surprise presenter for the top TV prize tonight, to the delight of the crowd. “Wouldn’t it be funny if I opened up the envelope and said, La La Land?” he asked.

Assassin’s Creed Origins and Avatar: Flight of Passage each scored one VES Award tonight, and the Visual Effects Society honored only one commercial this year: Samsung’s “Do What You Can’t – Ostrich” won all three trophies awarded for ads. Watch the minutelong version here:

The VFX crowd presented a pair of career honors tonight. Jon Favreau, who helmed the first two Iron Man pics and whose The Jungle Book was the big VES winner last year, received the VES Lifetime Achievement Award from Marvel lord Kevin Feige. Joe Letteri, a four-time VFX Oscar winner for Avatar, two Lord of the Rings films and 2005’s King Kong, was presented with the Georges Méliès Award by Jon Landau.

In accepting his award, Favreau said: “I really will treasure this. … You [VFX pros] are giving me the award for the work you all did. I don’t feel like a teacher, I feel like a student.” He also mentioned all the people whose work remains an inspiration for him. “This is not about technology, it’s the people. … We are creating the hand-painted tile that makes a mosaic that makes a movie.”