VIDEO : 'Avengers: Infinity War' Takes Top Prize At Visual Effects Awards

Congrats to Avengers: Infinity War for taking home the top prize at the VES Awards! This was the 17th awards ceremony from the Visual Effects Society and the first time they have ever awarded the Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Award to a Marvel Cinematic Universe film. The movie also won Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture for Thanos (another first win for the MCU in this category), Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature for Titan, and Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature for Titan. According to Deadline, the winner of the VES Award for Photoreal Feature has gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects 10 out of 16 times.