Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting in 2002. While the award's title has changed several time within this period, the recipient has always been a visual effects-heavy television episode. Episodes with more background effects work have their own category, the Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode. Until 2012, miniseries and television movies had their own category.

2000s
Best Visual Effects in a Television Series

Best Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series Best Visual Effects in a Television Miniseries, Movie, or Special Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie, or Special

2010s
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode

Programs with multiple awards

 * 6 awards
 * Game of Thrones (HBO)


 * 4 awards
 * Battlestar Galactica (Syfy)

Programs with multiple nominations

 * 7 nominations
 * Game of Thrones (HBO)


 * 5 nominations
 * Battlestar Galactica (Syfy)


 * 3 nominations
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC)
 * Doctor Who (BBC)
 * Stranger Things (Netflix)
 * Westworld (HBO)


 * 2 nominations
 * Falling Skies (TNT)
 * Fringe (Fox)
 * Heroes (NBC)
 * Lost in Space (Netflix)
 * The Mandalorian (Disney+)
 * Once Upon a Time (ABC)
 * Smallville (The WB)
 * Stargate Atlantis (Syfy)
 * Stargate Universe(Syfy)
 * Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
 * Star Trek: Enterprise (UPN)
 * V (ABC)