Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2011. The award was originally titled "Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture", before being re-titled in 2016.

2010s[]

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Year	Film	Enironment	Nominee(s)
2011 ^[1]^[2]	Rango	Main Street Dirt	John Bell, Polly Ing, Martin Murphy, Russell Paul
	The Adventures of Tintin	Bagghar	Hamish Beachman, Adam King, Wayne Stables, Mark Tait
		Docks	Matt Aitken, Jeff Capogreco, Jason Lazaroff, Alessandro Mozzato
		Pirate Battle	Phil Barrenger, Keith F. Miller, Alessandro Saponi, Christoph Sprenger
	Puss in Boots	The Cloud World	Guillaume Aretos, Greg Lev, Brett Miller, Peter Zaslav
2012 ^[3]^[4]	Brave	The Forest	Tim Best, Steve Pilcher, Inigo Quilez, Andrew Whittock
	ParaNorman	Graveyard	Phil Brotherton, Robert Desue, Oliver Jones, Nick Mariana
	ParaNorman	Main Street	Alice Bird, Matt DeLeu, Caitlin Pashalek
	Rise of the Guardians	The North Pole	Eric Bouffard, Sonja Burchard, Andy Harbeck, Peter Maynez
2013 ^[5]^[6]	Frozen	Elsa's Ice Palace	Virgilio John Aquino, Alessandro Jacomini, Lance Summers, David Womersley
	The Croods	The Maze	Jonathan Harman, Violette Sacre-Shaik, Benjamin Venancie, Philippe Brochu
	Epic	Pod Patch	Aaron Ross, Travis Price, Jake Panian, Antelmo Villarreal
	Monsters University	Campus	Robert Kondo, Eric Andraos, Dale Ruffolo, Peter Sumanaseni
2014 ^[7]^[8]	Big Hero 6	Into the Portal	Ralf Habel, David Hutchins, Michael Kaschalk, Olun Riley
	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
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Oasis	Glo Minaya, Amy Chen, Sean McEwan, Jeff Masters

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature

Year	Film	Character	Nominee(s)
2015 ^[9]^[10]	The Good Dinosaur	The Farm	David Munier, Matthew Webb, Matt Kuruc, Tom Miller
	Inside Out	Imagination Land	Amy L. Allen, Steve Karski, Eric Andraos, Jose L. Ramos Serrano
	The Peanuts Movie	Charlie Brown's Neighborhood	Jon Townley, Angel Camacho-Torres, Cleveland Hibbert, Ken Lee
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Under the Arches	Matt Perry, Charles Copping, Alfred Llupia Perez, Andy Brown
2016 ^[11]^[12]	Moana	Motonui Island	Rob Dressel, Andy Harkness, Brien Hindman, Larry Wu
	Finding Dory	Open Ocean Exhibit	Stephen Gustafson, Jack Hattori, Jesse Hollander, Michael Rutter
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Hanzo's Fortress	Phil Brotherton, Nick Mariana, Emily Greene, Joe Strasser
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Waves	David Horsley, Eric Wachtman, Daniel Leatherdale, Takashi Kuboto
2017 ^[13]^[14]	Coco	City of the Dead	Michael Frederickson, Jamie Hecker, Jonathan Pytko, Dave Strick
	Cars 3	Abandoned Racetrack	Marlena Fecho, Thidartana Annee Jonjai, Jose L. Ramos Serrano, Frank Tai
	Despicable Me 3	Hollywood Destruction	Axelle De Cooman, Pierre Lopes, Milo Riccarand, Nicolas Brack
	The Lego Ninjago Movie	Ninjago City	Kim Taylor, Angela Ensele, Felicity Coonan, Jean Pascal leBlanc
2018 ^[15]^[16]	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Graphic New York City	Terry Park, Bret St. Clair, Kimberly Liptrap, Dave Morehead
	Dr. Seuss' The Grinch	Whoville	Loic Rastout, Ludovic Ramiere, Henri Deruer, Nicolas Brack
	Incredibles 2	Parr House	Christopher M. Burrows, Philip Metschan, Michael Rutter, Joshua West
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Social Media District	Benjamin Min Huang, Jon Kim Krummel II, Gina Warr Lawes, Matthias Lechner
2019 ^[17]^[18]	Toy Story 4	Antiques Mall	Hosuk Chang, Andrew Finley, Alison Leaf, Philip Shoebottom for Antique Mall
	Frozen II	Giants' Gorge	Samy Segura, Jay V. Jackson, Justin Cram, Scott Townsend
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	The Hidden World	Chris Grun, Ronnie Cleland, Ariel Chisholm, Philippe Brochu
	Missing Link	Passage to India Jungle	Phil Brotherton, Oliver Jones, Nick Mariana, Ralph Procida

2020s[]

Year	Film	Enironment	Nominee(s)
2020 ^[19]^[20]	Soul	You Seminar	Hosuk Chang, Sungyeon Joh, Peter Roe, Frank Tai
	Onward	Swamp Gas	Eric Andraos, Laura Grieve, Nick Pitera, Michael Rutter
	Trolls World Tour	Techno Reef	Luke Heathcock, Zachary Glynn, Marina Ilic, Michael Trull
	Trolls World Tour	Volcano Rock City	Brian LaFrance, Sara Cembalisty, Christopher Sprunger, Ruben Perez

Films with Multiple Nominations[]

3 Nominations

The Adventures of Tintin

2 Nominations

References[]

^ Susan King (January 9, 2012). "'Tintin' and HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' lead Visual Effects nominations". Los Angeles Times. Patrick Soon-Shiong. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Carolyn Giardina (February 7, 2012). "'Apes,' 'Hugo,' 'Transformers 3' Win Two Categories Each at VES Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Rahim Zahed (January 7, 2013). "VES Award Nominees Are Announced". Animation Magazine. Jean Thoren. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Carolyn Giardina (February 5, 2013). "VES Awards 2013: 'Life of Pi' Wins Top Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ The Deadline Team (January 14, 2014). "'Gravity' Leads With 8 VES Awards Nominations; 'Pacific Rim' Nabs 6". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Bill Desowitz (February 13, 2014). "'Gravity,' 'Frozen' Big VES Awards Winners". IndieWire. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ The Deadline Team (January 13, 2015). "Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Announced". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Bill Desowitz (February 4, 2015). "Big Hero 6 is the Big Hero with 5 Awards; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Tops the Feature Film Category; Game of Thrones and SSE Lead in Broadcast and Commercial Wins". StudioDaily. Access Intelligence. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Margaret Lenker (January 12, 2016). "'Star Wars,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Peanuts Movie' Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Carolyn Giardina (February 3, 2016). "VES Awards Winners: 'Star Wars' Takes Top Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ RT Staff (January 10, 2017). "'Star Wars,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Peanuts Movie' Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Carolyn Giardina (February 7, 2017). "'The Jungle Book' Takes Top Visual Effects Society Honors". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Erik Pedersen (January 16, 2018). "VES Awards Nominations: 'Blade Runner 2049' & Latest 'Apes' Lead Film; 'Thrones' Rules All With 11 Noms". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Erik Pedersen, Diane Haithman (February 13, 2018). "VES Awards: 'Apes', 'Coco' & 'Thrones' Dominate VFX Nods – Full Winners List". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
^ Carolyn Giardina (January 15, 2019). "Visual Effects Society Awards: 'Avengers: 'Infinity War' Leads Feature Noms; 'Black Panther,' 'Mary Poppins Returns' Snubbed". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Carolyn Giardina (February 5, 2019). "Visual Effects Society Awards: 'Avengers: Infinity War' Wins Top Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Patrick Hipes (January 7, 2020). "Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Announced". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Carolyn Giardina (January 29, 2020). "'The Lion King' Wins Top Honor at Visual Effects Society Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Pederson, Erik (March 2, 2021). "VES Awards Nominations: 'Tenet', 'Midnight Sky', 'Extraction', 'Soul' & 'Mandalorian' Among Titles In Visual Effects Hunt". Deadline. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
^ Hipes, Patrick (April 6, 2021). "VES Awards: 'The Midnight Sky', Pixar's 'Soul', 'The Mandalorian' Take Marquee Honors – Full List Of Winners". deadline. Retrieved April 6, 2021.

[1] Susan King (January 9, 2012). "'Tintin' and HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' lead Visual Effects nominations". Los Angeles Times. Patrick Soon-Shiong. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[2] Carolyn Giardina (February 7, 2012). "'Apes,' 'Hugo,' 'Transformers 3' Win Two Categories Each at VES Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[3] Rahim Zahed (January 7, 2013). "VES Award Nominees Are Announced". Animation Magazine. Jean Thoren. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[4] Carolyn Giardina (February 5, 2013). "VES Awards 2013: 'Life of Pi' Wins Top Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[5] The Deadline Team (January 14, 2014). "'Gravity' Leads With 8 VES Awards Nominations; 'Pacific Rim' Nabs 6". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[6] Bill Desowitz (February 13, 2014). "'Gravity,' 'Frozen' Big VES Awards Winners". IndieWire. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[7] The Deadline Team (January 13, 2015). "Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Announced". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[8] Bill Desowitz (February 4, 2015). "Big Hero 6 is the Big Hero with 5 Awards; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Tops the Feature Film Category; Game of Thrones and SSE Lead in Broadcast and Commercial Wins". StudioDaily. Access Intelligence. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[9] Margaret Lenker (January 12, 2016). "'Star Wars,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Peanuts Movie' Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[10] Carolyn Giardina (February 3, 2016). "VES Awards Winners: 'Star Wars' Takes Top Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[11] RT Staff (January 10, 2017). "'Star Wars,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Peanuts Movie' Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[12] Carolyn Giardina (February 7, 2017). "'The Jungle Book' Takes Top Visual Effects Society Honors". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[13] Erik Pedersen (January 16, 2018). "VES Awards Nominations: 'Blade Runner 2049' & Latest 'Apes' Lead Film; 'Thrones' Rules All With 11 Noms". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[14] Erik Pedersen, Diane Haithman (February 13, 2018). "VES Awards: 'Apes', 'Coco' & 'Thrones' Dominate VFX Nods – Full Winners List". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[15] Carolyn Giardina (January 15, 2019). "Visual Effects Society Awards: 'Avengers: 'Infinity War' Leads Feature Noms; 'Black Panther,' 'Mary Poppins Returns' Snubbed". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[16] Carolyn Giardina (February 5, 2019). "Visual Effects Society Awards: 'Avengers: Infinity War' Wins Top Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[17] Patrick Hipes (January 7, 2020). "Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Announced". Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[18] Carolyn Giardina (January 29, 2020). "'The Lion King' Wins Top Honor at Visual Effects Society Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Lynne Segall. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[19] Pederson, Erik (March 2, 2021). "VES Awards Nominations: 'Tenet', 'Midnight Sky', 'Extraction', 'Soul' & 'Mandalorian' Among Titles In Visual Effects Hunt". Deadline. Retrieved March 2, 2021.

[20] Hipes, Patrick (April 6, 2021). "VES Awards: 'The Midnight Sky', Pixar's 'Soul', 'The Mandalorian' Take Marquee Honors – Full List Of Winners". deadline. Retrieved April 6, 2021.

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