Awards Season 2025: ‘Dune: Part Two’ wins the Oscar®
All the latest news about our award-winning and nominated shows.
Academy Awards®
We’re so incredibly proud to share that Dune: Part Two has won the ‘Visual Effects’ Oscar® at the 2025 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards!
As lead VFX partner on Denis Villeneuve’s visionary sequel, we couldn’t be happier for our incredible team. Huge congratulations to Oscar-winners Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer, and our entire global Dune crew!
Best Visual Effects:
- Dune: Part Two - WINNER
- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked
BAFTA
We are so excited to share that Dune: Part Two received the BAFTA for ‘Special Visual Effects’ at the 2025 Annual BAFTAs!
Huge congratulations to our incredible team for their work on the film, and to all the other winners and nominees of the evening!
Special Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two - WINNER Better Man Gladiator II Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Wicked
VES Awards
We’re so proud to see our talented Dune: Part Two crew receive 4 VES Awards this year!
The VES Awards are hosted each year to celebrate the outstanding work and contributions made by the VFX Supervisors, Producers and Artists who helped shape the visual effects landscape and bring magic to our screens!
DUNE: PART TWO
WINNER - CATEGORY 12: OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE The Arrakeen Basin – Daniel Rhein, Daniel Anton Fernandez, Marc James Austin, Christopher Anciaume
WINNER - CATEGORY 15: OUTSTANDING CG CINEMATOGRAPHY The Grounded Cinematography of Arrakis – Greig Fraser, Xin Steve Guo, Sandra Murta, Ben Wiggs
WINNER - CATEGORY 17: OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE Atomic Explosions and Wormriding – Nicholas Papworth, Sandy la Tourelle, Lisa Nolan, Christopher Phillips
WINNER - CATEGORY 20: OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE Wormriding, Geidi Prime, and the Final Battle – Christopher Rickard, Francesco Dell’Anna, Paul Chapman, Ryan Wing
Congratulations to all our winners and to our clients and collaborators, and to all the other teams that won last night!
Critics Choice Awards
We're thrilled to announce that our DNEG VFX team has won the Critics Choice Award for 'Best Visual Effects' for Dune: Part Two. Congratulations to the entire team on this incredible achievement!
The Critics Choice Awards are given annually to honour the finest in cinematic and television achievement.
Best Visual Effects:
- Dune: Part Two
- Gladiator II
- Wicked
- Better Man
- The Substance
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes!
A huge congratulations to all of the night’s winners and nominees!
The Astra Awards
The Hollywood Creative Alliance Astra Awards were held on Sunday, December 8 in Los Angeles – and DNEG brought home the award for ‘Best Visual Effects’ for our work on Dune: Part Two!
Congratulations to our team for this honour, and to all other nominees and winners of the evening!
American Cinematheque’s Tribute To The Crafts
Dedicated to those who are at the very heart of filmmaking and have exhibited extraordinary work behind the camera over the past year, American Cinematheque’s Tribute to The Crafts has selected Dune: Part Two for the Visual Effects category this year!
Congratulations to the honourees – our very DNEG VFX Supervisors Stephen James and Rhys Salcombe, alongside Paul Lambert and Gerd Nefzer – and to our entire Dune: Part Two team!
The Saturn Awards
Presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, the Saturn Awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film.
We’re delighted to share that at the 52nd annual Saturn Awards ceremony held on February 2nd, Dune: Part Two received the award for ‘Best Film Visual / Special Effects’!
Huge congratulations to our team, and to all the other winners on the night!
Stay tuned!