PROPEL - Stress Monster (Mitch Drain, Sean Faden, Matt Hackett, Denis Gauthier)

* Outstanding Effects in an Animated Motion Picture

BEOWULF - Dragon Chase (Theo Vandernoot, Vincent Serritella, Rob Engle, Pericles Michielin)

SHREK THE THIRD - Effects (Matt Baer, Greg Hart, Krzysztof Rost, Anthony Field)

RATATOUILLE - Food (Jon Reisch, Jason Johnston, Eric Froemling, Tolga Goktekin)

SURF'S UP - Riding Wave - CG Style (Rob Bredow, Daniel Kramer, Matt Hausman, Danny Dimian)

RATATOUILLE - Rapids (Darwyn Peachey, Chen Shen)

* Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture

SWEENEY TODD - The Old Bailey (Raf Morant, Julian Gnass, Nakia McGlynn, Christine Wong)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END - The Maelstrom (Frank Losasso Petterson , Paul Sharpe , Joakim Arnesson , David Meny)

ZODIAC - Washington and Cherry (Wei Zheng, Greg Szafranski, Janelle Croshaw, Karl Denham)

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - The Hall of Prophecy (David Vickery, Philippe LePrince, Trina Roy, Jolene McCaffrey)

RUSH HOUR 3 (Barry Williams, Robert Weaver, Jay Cooper, Masahiko Tani)

I AM LEGEND - Times Square Hunt (Daniel Eaton, Blaine Kennison, Ron Gress, Daveed Shwartz)

* Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Broadcast Program or Commercial

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE - 002_05 (Phi Tran, Matthew Lee, Martin Hilke, Andrew Roberts)

TIN MAN - Night One (Les Quinn, Ken Less, Andrew Domachowski, Jonah West)

UGLY BETTY - "A League of their Own" (Chris Martin, Michael Cook, Cedric Tomacruz)

SMALLVILLE - Metropolis City (Kaz Yoshida, Jack Matsumoto, Andrea Shear, Eli Jarra)

SUBARU - "Peel Out" (Graham Fyffe, Chris Nichols, Chris Bankoff, Daniel Buck)

* Outstanding Models or Miniatures in a Motion Picture

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END - Practical and Digital Ships (Ken Bailey, Bruce Holcomb, Carl Miller, Geoff Heron)

LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD - Freeway Sequence - F35 Miniature and Effects (Ian Hunter, Scott Schneider, Scott Beverly, John Cazin)

TRANSFORMERS (Dave Fogler, Ron Woodall, Alex Jaeger, Brian Gernand)

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - Hogwarts School (Jose Granell, Nigel Stone)

SPIDER-MAN 3 - Building / Crane Destruction Miniature and Effects (Ian Hunter, Scott Beverly, Forest Fischer, Raymond Moore)

* Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture

TRANSFORMERS (Pat Tubach, Beth D'Amato, Todd Vaziri , Mike Conte)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END - Death of Beckett (Lou Pecora, Joel Behrens, Ted Andre, Kevin Lingenfelser)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (Eddie Pasquarello, Katrin Klaiber, Jen Howard, Shawn Hillier)

I AM LEGEND - Seaport Evacuation (Darren Lurie, John Sasaki, Rita Kunzler, Fish Essenfeld)

THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP - Crusoe (Areito Echevarria, Gareth Dinneen, Norman Cates, Caterina Schiffers)

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - Hall of Prophecy and Comp Shots (Jolene McCaffrey, Jelena Stojanovic, Victor Wade, Adam Pashke)

* Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program or Commercial

SMALLVILLE, SEASON 6 - Episode 11, "Justice" (Rob Reinhart, Jack Matsumoto, Takashi Takeoka, Christina Spring)

TIN MAN - Night One (Todd Liddiard, Philippe Thibault, Lionel Lim, Annabelle Kent)

NIKE - LEAVE NOTHING (James Allen, Rob Trent)

SMALLVILLE - Bizarro Flood (David Alexander, Kaz Yoshida, Geeta Basantani, Tony White)

LEVIS - CHANGE (Tim Davies, Jason Schugardt, Yuichiro Yamashito)

* Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (John Richardson, Stephen Hamilton, Richard Farns, Stephen Hutchinson)

* Outstanding Special Effects in a Broadcast Program or Commercial

ACTIVELY SAFE - Lexus Hydrant (Dave Peterson, Anthony De La Cruz)

The 6th Annual VES Awards will take place at the Kodak Theatre Grand Ballroom in Hollywood.