The Visual Effects Society announced the winners of its 10th Annual VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Submissions are now open for the AVANCA 2012 – International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia international and world premiere competitions.

Milla Jovovich will host the Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, February 11.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG) announced the winners of its 16th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in nine categories of film, television, commercials and music videos.

Four students from The DAVE School (Digital Animation and Visual Effects) have been selected by the prestigious Visual Effects Society as nominees in the student category for the 10th Annual VES Awards Gala, a ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in film, animation, television, commercials, special venues and video games.

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood announces the winners of the 39th Annual Annie Awards, with Rango taking top honors.

The deadline for entries to the Animated Fashion competition at this year’s Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film is March 16, 2012.

When visual effects supervisor Louis Morin and VFX producer Annie Godin were nominated for a VES Award for their work on Duncan Jones’ Source Code, the Montreal-based facilities involved in the film had reason to celebrate as well.

The VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy has launched a new contest to celebrate the creative power of technology at the service of society. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2012.

The deadline for entries to the VIEW Awards, to be held at the VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy, is September 15, 2012.

The deadline for submissions for the Third Golden Kuker awards is April 1, 2012.

Screen Actors Guild presented its awards for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2011 at the “18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards” in ceremonies attended by film and television’s leading actors, held Sunday, January 29, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.

AMPAS has entered into an agreement with Everyone Counts Inc. to exclusively develop an electronic voting system for the 85th Academy Awards, to be held in 2013.

Following on Double Negative's Oscar win for Inception in 2011, Dneg's work has again been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar, this year for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

Artists from international VFX company Pixomondo have earned the company's first-ever Academy Award nomination garnered for work on Martin Scorsese's 3D epic adventure, Hugo.

Digital Domain had two of the feature films it worked on nominated for the visual effects Academy Award: Real Steel and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Patton Oswalt (Young Adult, Ratatouille) will host the 10th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

The IFTA announced independent films captured 60 nominations in feature categories for the 84th Academy Awards.

3D animated feature Hugo leads the field with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Directing, Film Editing, Music (Original Score), Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects and Writing.

Arthur Christmas, the Aardman production for Sony Pictures Animation, continues to collect post-holiday presents from critics groups across the country, as the 2011 awards season starts to pick up speed.