Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Game Of Thrones came in to the 14th annual VES Awards with the most nominations, and they left with the most wins: four apiece. The Revenant went home with three statuettes. The trophies were handed out at the Beverly Hilton, hosted Patton Oswalt, who delivered a hilarious opening monologue and kept proceedings fast and light, and occasionally profane – for instance near the end, when he implored Batman v Superman director Zach Snyder not to F— up the film and franchise.

Meanwhile, The Good Dinosaur fairly surprised Oscar front-runner and fellow Pixar toon Inside Out, winning three awards — including Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature — to the latter’s one.

Let’s start by addressing the exogorth in the room: Star Wars: The Force Awakens came in with a seven nominations and won the big award by beating fellow VFX Oscar nominees Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian as well as Furious 7 and San Andreas. The winners of VES’ top film award has gone on to score the Visual Effects Oscar nine out of 14 times.

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One commercial dominated that category tonight: SSE’s “Pier,” a British spot that features an inquisitive orangutan discovering the wonders of an amusement park on a seaside pier. Watch it here:

Ridley Scott, the director behind such films as Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator and The Martian, received the VES Lifetime Achievement Award. Scott delivered a amiable, rambling speech (no doubt fueled by the generous food and wine dished out to attendees) that touched on his long experience with visual effects. Touching first on the very practical work on films such as Alien and Legend, he said that the advances that came later were art, as are science and math, and like science and math arts he realized he hadn’t learned. He also praised the “genius” and creativity of visual effects professionals, and thanked them profusely for the honor. Meanwhile, VES presented its Visionary Awards to Syd Mead, who has amassed credits ranging from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and Tron to Mission: Impossible III and Elysium.

The VES Awards honors the most outstanding visual effects work of the year and the artists who created them. Here is the complete list of winners:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Roger Guyett

Luke O’Byrne

Patrick Tubach

Paul Kavanagh

Chris Corbould

Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature

The Good Dinosaur

Sanjay Bakshi

Denise Ream

Michael Venturini

Jon Reisch

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode

Game of Thrones; The Dance of Dragons

Joe Bauer

Steve Kullback

Eric Carney

Derek Spears

Stuart Brisdon

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial

SSE; Pier

Neil Davies

Tim Lyall

Hitesh Patel

Jorge Montiel

Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature

The Revenant; The Bear

Matt Shumway

Gaelle Morand

Karin Cooper

Leandro Estebecorena

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature

Inside Out; Joy

Shawn Krause

Tanja Krampfert

Jacob Merrell

Alexis Angelidis

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project

SSE; Pier; Orangutan

Jorge Montiel

Sauce Vilas

Philippe Moine

Sam Driscoll

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature

Mad Max: Fury Road; Toxic Storm

Dan Bethell

Clinton Downs

Chris Young

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature

The Good Dinosaur

Stephen Marshall

Magnus Wrenninge

Michael Hall

Hemagiri Arumugam

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project

Game of Thrones; Hardhome

David Ramos

Antonio Lado

Piotr Weiss

Félix Bergés

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project

Citipati

Andreas Feix

Francesco Faranna

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project

The Order: 1886

Nathan Phail-Liff

Dana Jan

Anthony Vitale

Scot Andreason

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project

Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Falcon Chase / Graveyard

Paul Kavanagh

Colin Benoit

Susumu Yukuhiro

Greg Salter

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project

Fast and Furious: Supercharged

Chris Shaw

Alysia Cotter

Ben White

Diego Guerrero

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature

Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Falcon Chase / Graveyard

Yanick Dusseault

Mike Wood

Justin van der Lek

Quentin Marmier

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature

The Good Dinosaur; The Farm

David Munier

Matthew Webb

Matt Kuruc

Tom Miller

Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project

Game of Thrones; City of Volantis

Dominic Piche

Christine Leclerc

Patrice Poissant

Thomas Montminy-Brodeur

Outstanding Models in a Photoreal or Animated Project

Star Wars: The Force Awakens; BB-8

Joshua Lee

Matthew Denton

Landis Fields

Cyrus Jam

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature

The Revenant; Bear Attack

Donny Rausch

Alan Travis

Charles Lai

TC Harrison

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Commercial

SSE; Pier

Gary Driver

Greg Spencer

Grant Connor

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode

Game of Thrones; Hardhome

Eduardo Díaz

Guillermo Orbe

Oscar Perea

Inmaculada Nadela

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

The Revenant

Rich McBride

Ivy Agregan

Jason Smith

Nicolas Chevallier

Cameron Waldbauer

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode

Vikings; To the Gates

Dominic Remane

Bill Halliday

Paul Wishart

Ovidiu Cinazan

Paul Byrne