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Stan Lee To Receive VES Lifetime Nod

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 1:08pm PDTTags: Stan Lee, VES, VES Awards, Visual Effects Society

The Visual Effects Society has tapped comic book icon Stan Lee to receive the 2012 VES Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be bestowed February 7 during the group’s VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton. Lee — whose creations with Marvel Comics include Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and Iron Man before founding his own company POW! Entertainment in 2001 — joins previous winners including George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and last year’s recipient Ray Harryhausen. “Stan Lee’s imagination has created a completely original and profitable niche in the entertainment world and has allowed visual effects to flex its muscle in service to it,” VES chairman Jeffrey Okun said in announcing the honor today.

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Douglas Trumbull To Receive VES Honor

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 4:33pm PDTTags: Douglas Trumbull, VES, Visual Effects Society

Los Angeles, October 11, 2011 – Visionary filmmaker, innovator and entrepreneur Douglas Trumbull, has been selected by the Visual Effects Society Board of Directors as the recipient of the 2012 Georges Méliès Award. The award will be presented at

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