The PIDS Enghien is an event dedicated to digital creation in all its forms: from visual effects to virtual reality, through animation and 3D, the PIDS crosses the creative, technical, economic and creative challenges of a sector in perpetual evolution.
Paris Images Digital Summit will present the 7th edition of the Digital Creation GENIE Awards, a ceremony celebrating the French digital creation talents (VFX Supervisor, Digital artists, innovators…) and the Legends of special effects.
On the occasion of this CEREMONY, Honorary GENIEs will be awarded to Rob Legato, Xavier Nicolas and Jerzy Kular.
GENIE AWARDS – Lauréats et Nommés 2022
Best Visual Effects – Feature Film
Olivier Cauwet (Superviseur VFX) – Justine Paynat-Sautivet (Productrice VFX) / BUF – Eiffel réalisé par Martin Bourboulon
Alain Carsoux(Directeur des VFX) – Aurélie Lajoux (Superviseuse VFX / CGEV – OSS117 : Alerte rouge en Afrique noire réalisé par Nicolas Bedos
Philippe Fournier(Superviseur VFX) / Fullscreen – Kaamelott réalisé par Alexandre Astier
Sébastien Rame (Superviseur VFX) – Edouard Valton (Producteur Exécutif) – Loriane Lucas (Productrice VFX) – Nicolas Borens (Superviseur Compositing) – Maxime Chaix (Artiste Compositing) / MPC Film & Episodic – Aline réalisé par Valérie Lemercier
Thomas Duval(Superviseur VFX) – Alexis Vieil et Théophile Dhuicque (Post-producteurs VFX) / Digital District – Le Dernier voyage réalisé par Romain Quirot
Best Visual Effects – TV Fiction
Hugues Namur (Superviseur VFX) – Delphine Lasserre (Productrice VFX) – Nicolas Borens (Superviseur Compositing) – Florian Wolff (Head of CG) – Christophe ‘Tchook’ Courgeau (Environment Supervisor) / MPC Film & Episodic – Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (Série TV – France 2) réalisée par Ashley Pharoah et Caleb Ranson
Stéphane Stradella « Strad » (Superviseur VFX) – Olivier Emery(Producteur VFX) / Trimaran VFX – Le Saut du diable (téléfilm – TF1) réalisé par Abel Ferry
Arnaud Leviez (Superviseur VFX) – Alexis Vieilet Pascal Giroux (Producteurs VFX) / Digital District – Germinal (Série TV – France 3) réalisée par David Hourrègue
Laurens Ehrmann (Superviseur VFX) Julien Martins (Superviseur Compositing), Audrey Lagnous (Productrice VFX) / The Yard VFX – WandaVision (série TV – Disney+) créée par Jac Schaeffer
Best Visual Effects – Advertising
Mhamed Elmezoued & Tony Dugard (CG Sup.) / Capsule Studio – Farming Simulator 22 Cinematic Trailer réalisé par Raoul Barbet & Stéphane Montel
Reepost – Hennessy V.S X Les Twins réalisé par Benoît Messager
Stéphane Pivron (Superviseur VFX), Marie-Cécile Juglair & Nicolas Huguet (Producteurs VFX), David Roubah (CG Supervisor)/ The Mill – Prada – “Luna Rossa Ocean” réalisé par Johan Renck
Geoffroy Barbet-Massin & Vincent Venchiarutti (Superviseurs VFX) – Stéphanie Mollet & Benjamin Cathala (Producteurs VFX), Antoine Antin (Lead Animation) / The Mill – Sumo réalisé par Geoffroy Barbet-Massin
Etienne Salançon(Superviseur VFX) – Dorothée Sémézis (Productrice VFX) / Digital District – Sega – Humankind réalisé par Edouard Salier
Best environment
Yann Blondel (VFX Supervisor) – Kristina Prilukova (VFX Producer) – Romain Bavent (Compositing Supervisor) – Christophe ‘Tchook’ Courgeau (Environment Supervisor) – Mark Robinson (CG Supervisor) / MPC Film & Episodic – The Last duel (long métrage) réalisé par Ridley Scott
Geoffrey Niquet & Dominique Vidal(Superviseurs VFX) – Camille Gibrat (Productrice VFX) / BUF – All I know so far – P!INK (clip vidéo) réalisé par Dave Meyers
Arnaud Leviez (Superviseur VFX) –Alexis Vieilet Pascal Giroux (Producteurs VFX) / Digital District – Germinal (Série TV – France 3) réalisée par David Hourrègue
Best character / creature
Benjamin Laborde (Superviseur VFX) – Olivier Osotimehin (Superviseur CG) – Cédric Herbet (Producteur VFX) / Fix Studio – France 3 – Les Poules (générique) réalisé par Sophie Deiss, Jean Christophe Saurel, Ivan Grangeon
Mhamed Elmezoued & Tony Dugard (CG Sup.) – Alfred Mathieu (Lead Character)– Alice Ruquier (Lead Character TD) / Capsule Studio – Farming Simulator 22 Cinematic Trailer (publicité) réalisé par Raoul Barbet & Stéphane Montel
Damien Canameras (Superviseur VFX) – Nicolas Huguet (Producteur VFX) – Mickael Girod (CG Supervisor) / Mikros MPC – Qatar – « Experience a world beyond » (publicité)
Best Innovation
Golaem 8 – Golaem
Aquarium Studio – Fatfish Lab
La Matrice – NEOSET
Best Student Film – VFX / CGI
Green – ArtFX
Relativity – ArtFX
The Soloists – Gobelins, l’école de l’image
Les Larmes de la Seine – Pole 3D
Yallah ! – Rubika
Rob Legato- GENIE Visionary Award 2022
The GENIE Visionary Award rewards a personality of the digital creation industry for significant and lasting contributions to the art and science by way of vision, artistry, invention and innovation.
After a career in Television for Paramount Pictures, Rob Legato joined the newly formed Digital Domain, a visual effects company founded by James Cameron, Stan Winston and Scott Ross. For Rob’s first feature assignment, he became the Visual Effects Supervisor, 2nd Unit Director and VFX Director of Photography for Neil Jordan’s “Interview with the Vampire.” This first feature led to Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13″ with Legato serving as the film’s Visual Effects Supervisor and Director of Photography for the VFX unit. Mr. Legato earned his first Academy Award nomination and won the British Academy Award’s BAFTA for his effects work in “Apollo 13.”
His next feature assignment, James Cameron’s “Titanic,” spanned the next several years and proved ultimately to be one of the most successful films ever made. For this film, Mr. Legato won his first Academy Award®. A few years later, he will find James Cameron on “Avatar” where he created and conceived the Virtual Cinematography Pipeline.
Legato left Digital Domain to join Sony Pictures Imageworks where he served as Visual Effects Supervisor on two Robert Zemeckisfilms, “What Lies Beneath” and “Cast Away.”
Rob Legato is known for his numerous collaborations with Martin Scorsese(6 films) with who he won the Oscar® for best Visual Effects on “Hugo Cabret”.
Winning his third Oscar in 2016 for his work on Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau’sThe Jungle Book, Legato then reteamed with the director on a CG remake of The Lion King, taking the techniques and technology he’d developed for the former film to new heights, and a new degree of sophistication.
He is currently serving as Visual Effects Supervisor and 2nd unit director on Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation” for Apple Studios.
A GENIE VISIONNARY AWARDS for Ex-Machina
In this adventure, Xavier Nicolas & Jerzy Kular played a particularly important role.
Architect of the computer animation team of SOGITEC Audio-Visual,Xavier Nicolas co-founded Ex-Machina and developed it internationally with branches in Los Angeles and Tokyo. In 2007, Xavier Nicolas joined the George Lucas studios as General Manager in order to contribute to the development of the Lucasfilm Singapore studio into a set of more than 500 artists and technicians dedicated to special effects (ILM Singapore), games (LucasArts Singapore ) and the animated series for Star-Wars (Clone-Wars). Following the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney, Xavier took over the management of THX in San Francisco.
With the creation of Ex-Machina Jerzy Kular has largely participated in the dissemination of the “French Touch” around the world, first in Europe, then in America, Asia and the Middle East.
He has worked in all audiovisual fields, but is best known for his innovative work as a director of films for exhibitions and attractions for theme parks, in 3D relief, and in dynamic cinema.
He has received numerous international awards for his work, often in collaboration with Jean-François Henry.
In 2008 he set up and managed a subsidiary of the Supinfocom / Rubika school in India, before taking the head of the mother school in Valenciennes in 2011.
Today, Ex-Machina is no longer but it has spawned more than 200 employees who then worked all over the world. Some have founded studios, schools, others have taken key positions in major international studios … It is therefore to this memory and this heritage that PIDS ENGHIEN and its editorial committee have chosen to award this year a GENIE of honor to Ex-Machina.
