Colin Decker (Special Effects); Justin Cornish, Dan Lemmon, Brooke Lyndon-Stanford, R. Christopher White, Erik Winquist (Visual Effects Supervisor)
Gone are the days of actors wearing monkey suits, with the fine people of WETA Digital upping the ante in motion capture technology to create a new breed of pissed off chimp in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Whatever praise Andy Serkis receives for his thrilling performance as Ceaser should also be given to the visual effects team that made this new era of movie magic possible.