Sunday, the very last of the guilds to announce will do so. The Visual Effects Society is probably the one group whose decision doesn’t matter as the Oscar winner in this category has been virtually set in stone since before the nominations were even announced. Still, it’s a fun group to watch the results on. So, here are our predictions:

Visual Effects Society

Visual Effects/Visual Effects-Driven Picture

2012
Avatar (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)
District 9
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Supporting Visual Effects

Angels & Demons (Wesley)
The Box
Invictus
The Road
Sherlock Holmes

Animation/Animated Picture

9
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Up (Wesley)

Single Visual Effect

2012 – Escape from L.A. (Wesley)
Avatar – Quarich’s Escape
Avatar – Neytiri Drinking
Knowing – Plane Crash
Terminator Salvation – VLA Escape

Animated Character/Live Action Picture

Neytiri – Avatar
Christopher Johnson – District 9 (Wesley)
Bucky – G-Force
Doctor Manhattan – Watchmen

Animated Character/Animated Picture

Coraline – Coraline
Buck – Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
B.O.B. – Monsters vs. Aliens
Carl – “No Dad Scene” – Up (Wesley)

Effects Animation/Animated Picture

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Monsters vs. Aliens
Up (Wesley)

Matte Paintings/Feature Motion Picture

Avatar – Pandora (Wesley)
Franklyn – Meanwhile City Scapes
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek

Models & Miniatures/Feature Motion Picture

Avatar – Samson/Home Tree / Floating Mountains / Ampsuit (Wesley)
Coraline
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – National Air and Space Museum Escape
Terminator Salvation

Created Environment/Feature Motion Picture

2012 – Los Angeles Destruction
Avatar – Floating Mountains
Avatar – Jungle/Biome (Wesley)
Avatar – Willow Glade

Compositing/Feature Motion Picture

Avatar (Wesley)
Avatar – End Battle
District 9
Sherlock Holmes

Predictions Commentary

Wesley Lovell: Mostly my predictions are just guess work, though I’m fairly confident about most of them, but could easily be surprised.
Peter J. Patrick: what else?