Game of Thrones takes home five Visual Effects Society awards for Season 7!

Drogon’s fiery destruction of the Lannister army in “The Spoils of War” took home an award from the 2017 Visual Effects Society’s annual awards.

Game of Thrones isn’t called an award-winning series for nothing, and it’s not just the people in front of the camera who make it so — direction, writing, cinematography and more have all taken home accolades for the show. That trend continues for the 2017-18 awards season with Thrones’ latest wins from the Visual Effects Society (VES) annual awards.

As we reported in January, the series was nominated for a total of seven awards, including Outstanding Visual Effects, Outstanding Created Environment, Outstanding Effects Simulation, Outstanding Compositing and Outstanding Animated Character (the much-despised-by-the-visual-effects-team undead polar bear in “Beyond the Wall” was one character nominated, although Drogon raining fire on the Lannister army in “The Spoils of War” was the ultimate winner). Thrones dominated at the awards, which were held in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, taking home five awards in total:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode: “Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall”
Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Chris Baird, David Ramos, Sam Conway

Outstanding Animated Character in an Episode or Real-Time Project: “Game of Thrones: The Spoils of War”: Drogon Loot Train Attack
Murray Stevenson, Jason Snyman, Jenn Taylor, Florian Friedmann

Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project: “Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall”: Frozen Lake
Daniel Villalba, Antonio Lado, José Luis Barreiro, Isaac de la Pompa

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project: “Game of Thrones: The Dragon and the Wolf”: Wall Destruction
Thomas Hullin, Dominik Kirouac, Sylvain Nouveau, Nathan Arbuckle

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode: “Game of Thrones: The Spoils of War”: Loot Train Attack
Dom Hellier, Thijs Noij, Edwin Holdsworth, Giacomo Matteucci

It was an impressive haul for the visual effects team on Thrones, which will have their hands full with the eighth and final season. With all the production news we’ve been seeing in the last weeks and months — not to mention the potential for dragons both alive and dead battling it out in the skies above Westeros — it promises to be an epic one! But I think I speak for the fandom when I ask showrunners D.B. Weiss and Dave Benioff to leave room in the VFX budget for Ghost in Season 8…

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