11th Annual VES Awards Nominees

With 2012 drawing to a close, its time to stop, look back, and reflect upon what the best of the year was in numerous awards ceremonies. As of January 7th, the Visual Effects Society (VES) announced their nominees for the 11th annual VES awards, which recognize outstanding visual effects across 24 categories of film, commercial, television, animation, and video games.

This year the VES are honouring Ang Lee with the VES Visionary Award, for his ground breaking work on "The Life of Pi".

The nominees include:

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Prometheus
• Life of Pi
• The Avengers
• BattleshipRust and Bones
• The Impossible
• Argo
• Flight
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Game of Thrones: Volar Morghulis
• Once Upon A Time: The Stranger
• Falling Skies: Worlds Apart
• Curiosity
• Munsters: Mockingbird Lane
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II
• Halo 4
• Dirt Showdown
• Forza Horizons
• Dishonored
• Brave
• Paranorman
• Rise of the Guardians
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Hotel Transylvania

So what do you think? What Visual Effects really stood out for you in good old 2012?