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Ang Lee, the two-time Academy Award-winning director, has noted that we should never underestimate the power of storytelling. Indeed, as a storyteller, Lee has shown through his films the potential of stories to connect people, to heal wounds, to drive change, and to reveal more about ourselves and the world. In particular, Lee has harnessed new technology for storytelling in movies such as Life of Pi (2012) and his upcoming feature film Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (to be released on 11 November, 2016).
The winners of the 11th Annual VES Awards were announced yesterday in Los Angeles. The two most honored films were Brave and Life of Pi, each with four awards, while Game of Thrones was the most-honored TV project, also with four awards.
Presented by the Visual Effects Society, the award recognizes outstanding visual effects work across a broad spectrum of the entertainment industry including film, animation, television, commercials and video games. In addition to the awards below, director Ang Lee was honored with the VES Visionary Award (presented by Dennis Muren) and ILM veteran Richard Edlund with the Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by Harrison Ford).
The following is the complete list of winners of The 11th Annual VES Awards:
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture Life of Pi
Donald R. Elliott, Susan Macleod, Guillaume Rocheron, Bill Westenhofer
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture The Impossible
Felix Bergés,Sandra Hermida,Pau Costa Moeller
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave
Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian, Bill Wise
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program Game of Thrones: Volar Morghulis
Rainer Gombos, Steve Kullback, Sven Martin, Juri Stanossek
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program Boardwalk Empire: Episode 308
John Bair, Parker Chehak, Paul Graff, Lesley Robson-Foster
Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Jason Blundell, Barry Whitney, Colin Whitney
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial Nike: Biomorph
Rafael Colon, Aladino Debert, David Liu, Nicola Wiseman
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem
Heather Drummons, Joel Friesch, Brooke Breton, Chris Bailey
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Life of Pi: Richard Parker
Erik De Boer, Sean Comer, Betsy Asher Hall, Kai-Hua Lan
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave: Merida
Travis Hathaway, Olivier Soares, Peter Sumanaseni, Brian Tindall
Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Game of Thrones: Training the Dragons
Irfan Celik, Florian Friedmann, Ingo Schachner, Chris Stenner
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture The Avengers: Midtown Manhattan
Richard Bluff, Barry Williams, David Meny, Andy Proctor
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave: The Forest
Tim Best, Steve Pilcher, Inigo Quilez, Andrew Whittock
Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Game of Thrones: Pyke
Rene Borst, Thilo Ewers, Adam Figielski, Jonas Stuckenbrock
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Matt Aitken, Victor Huang, Christian Rivers, R. Christopher White
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Commercial or Broadcast Program ZombiU
Dominique Boidin, Léon Bérelle, Rémi Kozyra, Maxime Luère
Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture The Avengers: Helicarrier
Rene Garcia, Bruce Holcomb, Polly Ing, Aaron Wilson
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture Life of Pi: Storm of God
Harry Mukhopadhyay, David Stopford, Mark Williams, Derek Wolfe
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Brave
Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Michael K. O’Brien, Bill Watral
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Guinness: Cloud
Tom Bussell, Neil Davies
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture Life of Pi: Storm of God
Ryan Clarke, Jose Fernandez, Sean Oharas, Hamish Schumacher
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program Game of Thrones, Episode 210: White Walker Army
Falk Boje, Esther Engel, Alexey Kuchinsky, Klaus Wuchta
Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial Chevy 2012 Silverado
Dominik Bauch, Nicholas Kim, Benjamin Walsh
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project Natalis
Daniel Brkovic, David Kirchner, Jan-Marcel Kuehn, Tom Ferstl
In the recent adaptation of Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi, director Ang Lee included what appears to be a sly reference to the iconic cover art for the book.
Reddit user chrs1979 spotted the image in the film, comparing the images in the photo album embedded above–what do you think?
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has since published a movie tie-in version with a completely different cover.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Life of Pi author Yann Martel gave his stamp of approval for Ang Lee‘s 3D film adaptation. He said that Lee’s film is “incredibly faithful to the book” not only in plot, but also in “the idea, the intent.”
Prior to shooting, Martel met with the director to give feedback on the screenplay. After that, the author took a very hands-off approach with film production.
He explained in the interview: “Early on, I made very clear that I was willing to do whatever they wanted me to do and that I was stepping back because I know my limits. I’m a novelist; it’s my business to write words and construct novels, not to make movies — as much as I love movies. I grew up watching movies.”
The first official trailer has been released for the film adaptation of Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi. We’ve embedded the trailer above–what do you think?
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee cast newcomerSuraj Sharma as Pi Patel. Other cast members include Tobey Maguire as Yann Martel, Irrfan Khan as Older Pi and Ayush Tandon as Younger Pi. The movie will hit theaters on November 21st.
Here’s more from CLICK: “Life of Pi has been in some stage of production since 2003, with several names attached including M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuaron and Jean-Pierre Jenuet. Lee was the one who finally managed to get it to principal photography, based on a script by Magee who also wrote the rather nice Finding Neverland. As you can probably tell from the presentation above, The Life of Pi was also shot in 3D and the colourful visuals might actually make for a decent extra dimensional experience for a change.” (via Publishers Weekly)
Release dates have been announced for the Peter Jackson‘s two Hobbit movies.
According to Variety, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will come out on December 14, 2012 and The Hobbit: There and Back Again will hit theaters on December 13, 2013. The video embedded above features a tour of The Hobbit‘s set.
Here’s more from the article: “Jackson began shooting the two films in New Zealand in 3D in mid-March with a cast including Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and Orlando Bloom, Andy Serkis, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen and Cate Blanchett reprising their roles from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Bloom joined the cast Friday to portray the elf Legolas.”
Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire (pictured, via) has joined the cast in Ang Lee‘sadaptation of Life of Pi. According to Deadline, “Maguire will play a writer who interviews the boy as an adult.”
We reported earlier that 17-year-old Suraj Sharma will debut in the lead role of Pi Patel. Other cast members include Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain.
MovieLoverNews.com reports that shooting for Life of Pi will take place in Taiwan and India. Tentative release is set for December 2012.
Author Yann Martel has a straightforward method for choosing selections for public readings: “it has to work orally.” In an interview with the National Post, the novelist shared author reading advice.
Martel explained: “In other words, people have to be able to get it hearing it and hearing it only once. Description isn’t usually a good choice. Dialogue or a scene with action works best.”
In 2002, Martel won the Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi. The novel will be adapted into a 3-D film by Oscar-winning director, Ang Lee. Lee has cast 17-year-old Suraj Sharma as lead protagonist, Pi Patel.
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A newcomer has landed the coveted lead role in Ang Lee‘s forthcoming adaptation of Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi. Lee also confirmed speculation that the filmwill be shot in 3-D, exceeding the original $50 million budget.
USA Today has the scoop: “Lee cast Suraj Sharma, 17, a Delhi high school student who acted once in a school play, to play Pi Patel, the young man stranded after a shipwreck on a 26-foot lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, zebra, hyena and orangutan. Sharma was one of 3,000 teenage boys who auditioned.’”
Martel published Life of Pi in 2001 with Knopf Canada after being rejected by five London publishers. At the time, he wrote the book to add purpose and direction in his life. Life of Pi went on to win the Man Booker Prize in 2002. (Via National Post)
In an interview with 
Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire (pictured, 
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