{"id":36698,"date":"2014-09-24T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=36698"},"modified":"2014-09-24T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:49:01","slug":"abrams-to-receive-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/09\/abrams-to-receive-award-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams To Receive Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36701\" alt=\"AbramsVESAward\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/AbramsVESAward.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>&#8216;<strong> J.J. Abrams<\/strong> will be receiving an award from <em>The Visual Effects Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The award will be presented to Abrams during the <em>13th Annual VES Awards<\/em> ceremony, to be held February 4.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Abrams will receive the <em>Visionary Award<\/em>. This award &#8220;recognizes an individual who has uniquely and consistently employed the art and science of visual effects to &#8216;foster imagination and ignite future discoveries by way of artistry, invention and groundbreaking work.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;J.J. Abrams has consistently elevated not just the technical aspect of visual effects, but also the emotional,&#8221; said VES board chair <strong>Jeffrey A. Okun<\/strong>. &#8220;He has redefined the relationship between the viewer and the story \u2013 you can easily see this from the epic cult followings of his highly engaging work, a testament to his expert blending of visual effects, evocative characters and a remarkable imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners of the <em>Visionary Award<\/em> include <strong>Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee, <\/strong>and<strong> Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek into Darkness&#8216; J.J. Abrams will be receiving an award from The Visual Effects&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2407,2484,7796,7799],"class_list":["post-36698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-abrams","tag-award","tag-the-visual-effects-society","tag-visionary-award"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36704,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698\/revisions\/36704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}