The 7th Visual Effects Society Awards, given in Los Angeles on February 21, 2009, at the Century Plaza Hotel, honored the best visual effects in film and television of 2008.
The awards were later broadcast, in an edited form, on the Starz Edge Network on May 9, 2009.
[1] (Winners in bold) Lifetime Achievement Award: George Melies Award for Pioneering: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Edson Williams, Nathan McGuinness, Lisa Beroud Changeling – Michael Owens, Geoffrey Hancock, Jinnie Pak, Dennis Hoffman WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Morris, Lindsey Collins, Nigel Hardwidge The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Benjamin's Secret – Eric Barba, Lisa Beroud, Steve Preeg, Jonathan Litt The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Benjamin Button – Steve Preeg, Matthias Wittmann, Tom St. Amand, David McLean WALL-E – Wall-E and Eve Truck Sequence – Ben Burtt, Victor Navone, Austin Lee, Jay Shuster Wall-E - Effects in WALL-E – Jason Johnston, Keith Daniel Klohn, Enrique Vila, Bill Watral Changeling - 1928 Downtown L.A. – Romain Bayle, Abel Milanes, Allan Lee, Debor Dunphy The Dark Knight - Garbage Truck Crash Models & Miniatures – Ian Hunter, Forest Fischer, Scott Beverly, Adam Gelbart The Dark Knight - IMAX Gotham City Scapes – Peter Bebb, David Vickery, Philippe Leprince, Andrew Lockley The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Benjamin Comes Together – Janelle Croshaw, Paul Lambert, Sonja Burchard, Sarahjane Javelo The Dark Knight - Overall – Chris Corbould, Peter Notley, Ian Lowe Defiance (Special Effects) – Neil Corbould, Steven Warner, Anne Marie Walters, Alan Young Battlestar Galactica - Season 4: BSG Space Battle– Gary Hutzel, Michael Gibson, Doug Drexler, Kyle Toucher Fringe - Episode 101 - Pilot – Kevin Blank, Jay Worth, Andrew Orloff, Barbara Genicoff Bacardi - Sundance – Alex Thiesen, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Jay Barton, Zsolt Krajcsik John Adams - Join or Die – Steve Kullback, Eric Henry, Robert Stromberg, Jeff Goldman Doctor Who - Series 4 - Silence in the Library – Simon Wickers, Charlie Bennett, Tim Barter, Arianna Lago John Adams - Join or Die - Episode 1 - The Boston Harbor – Paul Graff, Robert Stromberg, Adam Watkins John Adams - Join or Die - Episode 1 - The Boston Harbor – Paul Graff, Joshua LaCross, Matt Collorafice Crysis Warhead – Zoltán Pócza, Gábor Mogyorósi, Tamás Schlägl World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Intro Cinematics – Jeff Chamberlain, Phillip Hillenbrand U2 3D - Selected shots – Peter Anderson, Jon Shapiro, David Franks, Jeremy Nicolaides Plastic - Transformation Sequence – Sandy Widyanata, Courtney Wise