VES Awards 2026 Winners - The Complete List

The winners of the 24th annual Visual Effects Society awards have been announced. Once again, James Cameron's new "Avatar" film dominated with a total of seven trophies, including Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. It also won for Emerging Technology and Outstanding Model, Environment, Character, Effects Simulations and CG Cinematography. "Avatar: Fire and Ash" came into the show with a total of 10 nominations.

Other winners include "KPop Demon Hunters", "Andor" and "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age". The VES Lifetime Achievement Award was given to film and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the VES Visionary Award was received by Wētā Workshop co-founder and COO Richard Taylor.

Read the complete list of 2026 VES awards winners after the jump.

New TV Trailers: BEL-AIR Final Season, UNDER SALT MARSH, THE PRICE OF CONFESSION, THE HUNT, GOMORRAH: THE ORIGINS and PREHISTORIC PLANET: ICE AGE Season 3

Today we have new trailers for:

• The fourth and final season of Peacock's drama series "Bel-Air".
• The British crime thriller series "Under Salt Marsh" starring Kelly Reilly, Rafe Spall and Jonathan Pryce
• Netflix's new Korean thriller series "The Price of Confession"
• The new Apple TV French thriller miniseries "The Hunt (Traqués)" starring Benoît Magimel & Mélanie Laurent
• The six-part Sky prequel series "Gomorrah: The Origins".
• The third season of the Apple documentary series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" executive produced by Jon Favreau.

Watch all the new trailers after the jump.